All 4 Uses of
compel
in
Middlemarch
- The human soul moves in many channels, and Mr. Casaubon, we know, had a sense of rectitude and an honorable pride in satisfying the requirements of honor, which compelled him to find other reasons for his conduct than those of jealousy and vindictiveness.†
Chpt 4
- But report took up this amazing case of tumor, not clearly distinguished from cancer, and considered the more awful for being of the wandering sort; till much prejudice against Lydgate's method as to drugs was overcome by the proof of his marvellous skill in the speedy restoration of Nancy Nash after she had been rolling and rolling in agonies from the presence of a tumor both hard and obstinate, but nevertheless compelled to yield.†
Chpt 5
- Neither law nor the world's opinion compelled her to this—only her husband's nature and her own compassion, only the ideal and not the real yoke of marriage.†
Chpt 5 *
- What should I do—how should I act now, this very day, if I could clutch my own pain, and compel it to silence, and think of those three?†
Chpt 8
Definition:
-
(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something