ultroneousness
English
Etymology
ultroneous + -ness
Noun
ultroneousness (uncountable)
- (rare) The state or quality of being ultroneous; spontaneousness; voluntariness.
- 1858, John Brown, Spare Hours, page 446:
- I would certainly make it against law, as it plainly is against nature, for cousins-german to marry; and if we could pair ourselves as we pair our live stock, and give ear to the teaching of an enlightened zoönomy, we might soon drive many of our fellest diseases out of our breed; but the law of personality, of ultroneousness, of free will, that which in a great measure makes us what we are, steps in and forbids anything but the convincement and force of reason.
- 1977, Piare Lal Sharma, World's Wisest Wizard: A Psychography of Sanjay Gandhi's Cosmic Mind:
- Today he is imparting his ultroneousness to all the Indians.
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