Both Uses of
compulsion
in
Don Quixote
- Then all was peace, all friendship, all concord; as yet the dull share of the crooked plough had not dared to rend and pierce the tender bowels of our first mother that without compulsion yielded from every portion of her broad fertile bosom all that could satisfy, sustain, and delight the children that then possessed her.†
Chpt 1.11-12 *compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
- The carter got down and with all speed unyoked the mules, and the keeper called out at the top of his voice, "I call all here to witness that against my will and under compulsion I open the cages and let the lions loose, and that I warn this gentleman that he will be accountable for all the harm and mischief which these beasts may do, and for my salary and dues as well.†
Chpt 2.17-18
Definition:
a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something; or a force or a requirement that forces an action