sua sponte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. Without prompting or suggestion; on its own initiative.

Word forms

sua sponte

Etymology

A borrowing of Latin sua sponte (“at its own prompting; by its own impulse; of its own free will”)

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