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of one's own accord

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  1. Also, of one's own free will. Voluntarily, without prompting or coercion, as in The entire audience rose of their own accord, or No, I'm climbing this mountain of my own free will. The first term dates from about 1450, the variant from about 1600.

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One should repair of one's own accord unto those foremost of Brahmanas that do not solicit anybody and make unto them gifts of diverse kinds of wealth in abundance.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

It is no easy task to tumble off a pedestal of one's own accord, even when one has not put oneself there.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred

Hence it is folly and overscrupulousness to add restrictions of one's own accord except in critical instances, as indicated above.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

As if one was caught, trapped into the married state, pinned by the leg, instead of going into it of one's own accord and glorying in the act!'

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

Yet even the feelings which one experiences by contagion one can experience only of one's own accord, in one's own way, and according to one's disposition.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

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