free-willer

名詞

軽蔑的歴史的アメリカ英語

A person who believes that human beings have free will. / A person who exercises free will.

日本語の意味

自由意志を信じる人 / 自由意志を行使する人

英語の意味

A person who believes that human beings have free will. / A person who exercises free will.

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The free-willer argued passionately that moral responsibility depends on individuals' ability to choose.

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自由意志を信じる人は、道徳的責任は個人が選択する能力に依存すると熱心に主張した。

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意味（1）

A person who believes that human beings have free will.

[…] most of us are “free-willers.” We automatically assume we can shape the future, including our technology, in almost any fashion we wish, at least within the constraints of the natural environment. A small but vocal school of determinists, however, argues that we delude ourselves.

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意味（2）

A person who exercises free will.

The Americans are free-willers, fussy, self-asserting, buzzing all round creation.

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(historical, Protestantism, derogatory) A person belonging to a sect that rejected the doctrine of predestination.

Since all are by nature alike children of wrath, I would know of these free-willers, how some become the children of God, & beleevers, & some abyde vnder the wrath of God?

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(historical, US) An immigrant to the United States who, upon arrival, voluntarily became an indentured servant.

Persons in a state of servitude are under four distinct denominations: negroes, who are the entire property of their respective owners: convicts, who are transported from the mother country for a limited term: indented servants, who are engaged for five years previous to their leaving England; and free-willers, who are supposed, from their situation, to possess superior advantages.

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