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

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

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

Without hope, uncompelled labor is an impossibility; and hope implies an object.

From Lectures on Art by Allston, Washington

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