uncompelled

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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 is this voluntary, uncompelled, spontaneous devotion of Himself to the good of men which is the magnetic point in this earth.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

I spake not uncompelled, And blushed not out the avowal.

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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