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
Without hope, uncompelled labor is an impossibility; and hope implies an object.
From Lectures on Art by Allston, Washington
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 McGuffey, William Holmes
I will precede you to the palace grand, Unto the Throne, and there our Rights obtain 390 Through peaceful means and mutual covenants, Made voluntarily and uncompelled.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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
