voluntarist
(ˈvɒləntərɪst)
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
An advocate or adherent of the voluntary principle or method in the Church or in philosophy.
Also, an advocate of voluntary military service as opposed to conscription.
| 1841 Fraser's Mag. XXIV. 361 ‘Bread for nothing’..is the hope of every Voluntarist, from sweet Mr. Gadsby's chapel to dear Mr. Fletcher's meeting. 1903 Harvard Psychol. Stud. I. 643 Phenomenalist and voluntarist thus do not see anything under the same aspect, neither the ideas nor the will. |
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Add: B. adj. = voluntaristic a.
| 1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 993 He subscribes to a rather voluntarist hope in the potentialities of the working class if only the state will leave it alone. 1984 D. Cupitt Sea of Faith iii. 58 To use a later terminology, the Bible's outlook is voluntarist rather than realist, for it stresses the primacy of the will rather than of being. |