All 3 Uses of
compel
in
The Fountainhead
- I...no, she hasn't told me...I didn't know.... Wynand was smiling, but the smile remained fixed, and Keating felt compelled to go on talking until some sign stopped him.†
Chpt 3.3 *compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.†
Chpt 3.7
- If everybody were compelled to have the proper kind of education, we'd have a better world.†
Chpt 4.6
Definition:
to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something
Most typically, compel describes an external influence forcing someone to do something, but it can also describe being driven by an internal desire.