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
Sacrifice must be free, loving, uncompelled; it must be the exhibition in act of love, the freest and most spontaneous of all human emotions.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
Nay, lady, said Sir Aymeris, nor to-morrow, nor any day uncompelled; neither shall we go nigher unto it than now we be.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William
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)
