What's the difference between freewill and voluntarily?

Freewill


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I don’t think [those posts] were written of her own freewill,” You said.

Voluntarily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (2) An additional 17 patients considered highly in need of treatment met criteria for commitment based on inability to care for self, but most were hospitalized voluntarily.
  • (3) To investigate this issue, data from two previous papers were reanalysed to investigate the complete time course of precuing target location with either: (1) a peripheral cue that may draw attention reflexively, or (2) a central, symbolic cue that may require attention to be directed voluntarily.
  • (4) Starbucks subsequently agreed to voluntarily pay £20m in taxes .
  • (5) More than 36,000 city voters had to sign within a 12-month period to automatically trigger a binding referendum after Birmingham city council had refused to voluntarily hold one.
  • (6) Both patients continue to use the device voluntarily; a smaller unit, however, that doesn't have the conspicuous external controls, would likely be readily acceptable to most young patients.
  • (7) As a way of learning about the motor control of chewing, we studied how well a subject could voluntarily chew in time with a metronome and defined the changes in the spatial and temporal aspects of the chewing pattern with changes in chewing rate.
  • (8) The sinus arrhythmia of the human heart was investigated in its relation to the tidal volume under resting conditions in the course of the day, in voluntarily changed tidal volume, under atropine medication and during physical work.
  • (9) Coulson, who is now David Cameron's communications director, voluntarily attended a meeting with the Metropolitan police at a solicitor's office last Thursday, 4 November.
  • (10) Of the 62 patients implanted, 52 (84%) continue to be treated adequately for spasticity; there are three poor long-term responders, four deaths due to underlying disease, and three whose participation has been voluntarily withdrawn.
  • (11) Diamond stressed that Barclays had "voluntarily and proactively disclosed to HRMC" the scheme it had used when buying back its debt in "a tax efficient matter".
  • (12) In this study, 510 people of six villages, representing ages between 1 month to 84 years cooperated voluntarily.
  • (13) About 300 were moved “voluntarily” from the camp last Tuesday to shelters elsewhere in France .
  • (14) We also propose a possible new approach in which people from the age of 18 years would voluntarily enrol in an organ donation program, agreeing to permit all usable organs to be taken for transplantation at the time of death.
  • (15) The authors report on an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (HCV Ab) prevalence (6.9%) in 622 homo-bisexual males from Northern Italy, voluntarily attending an HIV and STDs screening program in the period 1984-89.
  • (16) These results would seem to indicate a possible functional relationship between rate of norepinephrine turnover and amounts of ethanol voluntarily consumed by the laboratory rat.
  • (17) It's a matter of legal obligation, imposed by the convention itself to which the UK voluntarily signed up.
  • (18) The law itself had the effect of increasing commitments throughout the state, reducing the levels of voluntary admissions, and increasing the likelihood of involuntary admission for individuals previously admitted voluntarily, thus transforming a principally voluntary system into one which was primarily involuntary.
  • (19) The inability to close the eyelids voluntarily is, with these types of lesion, a transient sign which is rapidly replaced by difficulty in maintaining the consign.
  • (20) Bright, bold and brilliantly ridiculous, Artpop looks like the sort of image that will jump out at you rather than make you want to blind yourself voluntarily.

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