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

The very oaks ran honey; the mild flock Brought home its swelling udders, uncompelled.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.

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)

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

Few were his friends, yet closely round him clustered, But from five million Britons, who at his call Came uncompelled and round him sternly mustered, The sighs escape, the silent teardrops fall.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval