unvoluntary

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Adj.1.Unvoluntary - not subject to the control of the willunvoluntary - not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy
involuntary, nonvoluntary
unconscious - not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor"
unwilling - not disposed or inclined toward; "an unwilling assistant"; "unwilling to face facts"
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It would surely be defensible to suppose an agreement between all morally sane men on the conviction that a society is in a pathological state if, let us say, 90 per cent of its surface belongs to a few feudal estates, or if 20 per cent of its members are unvoluntarily unemployed for a long time, or if 70 per cent are proletarianized job-hunters, or if suicide and divorces become mass phenomena, or if there is a hyper-inflation like the German one, or if the family is in complete dissolution.
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Financial resources from the export sector were channelled into the high-skill/high-learning sector of textile machinery production, which was subsidised unvoluntarily by the textile exporters.
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