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 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

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 Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

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 Gunn, John Alexander

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