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
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 John Alexander Gunn
I spake not uncompelled, And blushed not out the avowal.
From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 Joost van den Vondel
Without hope, uncompelled labor is an impossibility; and hope implies an object.
From Lectures on Art by Washington Allston
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