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
The conditions under which he wrote were very far removed from the Golden Age which he described,— "Which uncompelled And without rule, in faith and truth, excelled."
From Poets of the South by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
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
Happy she, if she may be permitted to bring them up to maturity, and uncompelled to renew her joys in another nest.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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
