uncompelled
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
Few were his friends, yet closely round him clustered, But from five million Britons, who at his call Came uncompelled and round him sternly mustered, The sighs escape, the silent teardrops fall.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
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
That you have assumed it uncompelled and self-elected, that you have exercised it undazzled by the ignis fatuus of genius, is your unfading glory.
From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William
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 Morris, William
