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
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 Edward Payson Roe
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 Samuel Richardson
For look you, this wood, like the thickets about the Burg of the Four Friths, hath an evil name, and few folk ride it uncompelled; therefore it is the safer for us.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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 William Morris
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