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
I spake not uncompelled, And blushed not out the avowal.
From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Whatever is intellectual may be compelled iv by dint of sheer purpose; whatever is emotional must spring undriven by outside authority, and uncompelled by inside determination.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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
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
