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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
- Yet by some strange force they were all compelled when they wrote, to write novels.4 (39% in)
There are no more uses of "compel" in A Room of One's Own.
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