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

I am glad indeed that you can give me simple friendship, unforced, uncompelled by any other motive than that which actuates you in regard to the others.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson

He walks abroad in the majesty of an universal understanding, eyeing the "rich strond," or golden sky above him, and "goes sounding on his way," in eloquent accents, uncompelled and free!

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

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

He walks abroad in the majesty of an universal understanding, eyeing the “rich strond,” or golden sky above him, and “goes sounding on his way,” in eloquent accents, uncompelled and free!

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob