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

No one uncompelled cared to face the grim, gray, scowling day whose breath was freezing.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

For, sooth to say, hitherto we have found this, that all men dread Evilshaw, and none will enter it uncompelled.

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

O that they did but know my heart!—It shall sooner burst, than voluntarily, uncompelled, undriven, dictate a measure that shall cast a slur either upon them, or upon my sex.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

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