compelled
adjective
secured or brought about by force.
uncompelled
-
a word derived from
compelled.
Example Sentences
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He does not dictate to them but is instead dictated to; our democratic context lays bare the widespread, uncompelled eagerness for aesthetics over results.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2020
It was here that my own free mind, uncompelled by pedagogues and unallured by prizes, first achieved a whole chapter in the Bible.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
Whatever is intellectual may be compelled iv by dint of sheer purpose; whatever is emotional must spring undriven by outside authority, and uncompelled by inside determination.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Nay, lady, said Sir Aymeris, nor to-morrow, nor any day uncompelled; neither shall we go nigher unto it than now we be.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
Many a thinker has been supported and inspired through weary years of inquiry and reflection by a mother-idea which has come to him, if not unsought yet uncompelled, in a flash of insight.
From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn
