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

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

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

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

She reddened again: "But he will not deal honestly by me, lord," she said, "and never will I go with him uncompelled."

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May