Word Finder - involuntary

definition

Without intention; unintentional.

definition

Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling.

example

He found himself the involuntary witness in the trial.

Lisa put shaking fingers to her mouth to silence an involuntary cry.

She took an involuntary step back into the hall.

According to him, then, attention, even involuntary attention, requires inner will; and all the functions imputed by Hume to association, as well as those imputed to understanding by Kant, require apperception, and therefore inner will.

The door is left wide open for involuntary euthanasia.

Common features include dystonia (an abnormality in muscle tone ), muscular rigidity, and sudden involuntary muscle spasms (spasticity ).

Factors that induce involuntary automaticity include ambiguity, stress and fatigue, and lack of clear roles and responsibilities.

An involuntary bailee must not wrongfully dispose of the chattels or take any positive steps to damage or destroy them.

Minor shocks may also cause injury following involuntary muscle contraction.

Except that in this case it will be an involuntary rumble from the baggage conveyor at Luton airport.

In a known drug user, sweating, involuntary sniffing and pupillary dilation are helpful physical signs of early withdrawal from opiates.

The slight involuntary flinch of her shoulders struck him with agonizing impact.

It is also critical to cementing a potentially fractious executive, with four parties thrown together in involuntary coalition.

Athetoid CP is characterized by involuntary writhing movements of the limbs and is usually caused by hypoxia of a shorter but more profound duration.

For these reasons the House declined to create a new doctrine of involuntary intoxication.

It applies to any movement that is not involuntary.

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine from the bladder.

The new offense of corporate killing is expected to be combined with wider reform on the law on involuntary manslaughter.

It is supported by involuntary contributions, by tithe and tax " (Canon Law in the Church of England, p. loo).

Firstly, if virtue is knowledge, does it follow that vice is involuntary?

Looks like I'm on an involuntary one myself, Jule said with a warm chuckle.

Kidnapping, involuntary resurrection—these were not the foundations on which trust was built!

Her involuntary cringe stopped him for a second and the dark eyes reflected equal portions of shame and hurt.

The only really curious thing about his school life was that he had a weird and quite involuntary habit of getting French prizes.

Secondly, the supposedly involuntary processes should somehow or other be encouraged to do their job properly.

It was faith giving, and it was totally involuntary.

Evidence from Holland demonstrates that voluntary euthanasia leads to non-voluntary and even involuntary euthanasia.

Whilst identifying several categories of individual at risk, they concluded that involuntary returnees to Sudan generally would not be in danger.

But you are not in involuntary servitude to the powers of the commonplace and the terrible domination of the everyday.

These involuntary spasms of the vocal cords cause the voice to change in quality.

Some of the difference results from involuntary unemployment or involuntary early retirement, reflecting labor market distortions.

The second class of phenomena, which we may call the automatic, consists in table-tilting and turning with contact; writing, drawing, &c., through the medium's hand; convulsive movements and involuntary dancing; entrancement, trancespeaking, and personation by the medium of deceased persons attributed to temporary "possession" (q.v.); seeing spirits and visions and hearing phantom voices.

In the sacrificial system of sin-offerings (Jhattath and'asham) we have to do with sin as ceremonial violation and neglect (frequently involuntary), or violation of holiness in the old sense of the term or as personal uncleanness (touching a corpse, eating unclean food, sexual impurity, &c.).

The last-named statesman, at the first Continental Congress after the evacuation by the British forces, proposed a draft ordinance (March ist 1784) for the government of the North-West Territory, in which it was provided that "after the year 1800 there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said states, otherwise than in punishment of crime."

In 1584 the long-suffering earl of Shrewsbury was relieved of his fourteen years' charge through the involuntary good offices of his wife, whose daughter by her first husband had married a brother of Darnley; and their orphan child Arabella, born in England, of royal descent on the father's side, was now, in the hopeful view of her grandmother, a more plausible claimant than the king or queen of Scots to the inheritance of the English throne.

I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn--a wholly new and rare experience to me.

But later on, to fit what had occurred, the historians provided cunningly devised evidence of the foresight and genius of the generals who, of all the blind tools of history were the most enslaved and involuntary.

It seeks to make the offense of involuntary manslaughter clearer by defining two new offenses of reckless killing and killing by gross carelessness.

While this is a physical activity, it is strictly involuntary and results as a response from some type of stimulus.

When the nervous system suffers from a nutrient deficiency, the body's involuntary and voluntary mechanisms may suffer in both humans and animals.

It can evoke involuntary emotional responses.

These involuntary movements may be temporary or may be continuous.

Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A form of involuntary celebrity exposure is by a top slip or a skirt flip and maybe a few poor clothing choices.

A former Jackson doctor has pleaded not guilty to the charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Flip flopping between manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter, officials decided on the latter.

Legal experts around the country state that Murray is being charged with involuntary manslaughter as opposed to murder because he did not willfully or purposefully intend to cause the death of Michael Jackson.

Jackson had reportedly taken multiple prescription drugs for pain, but his personal physician was charged with involuntary manslaughter in 2010 with administering a fatal cocktail of drugs, which brought on cardiac arrest.

Murray is being charged with involuntary manslaughter, accused of prescribing the lethal drug cocktail that eventually killed the pop singer.

Autonomic Nervous System; The autonomic nervous system is the set of involuntary nerves that controls body functions such as respiration and heartbeat.

Whenever I wear the wolf shirt I have a lot less issues with involuntary urination.