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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
- Up to now Phaedrus had been compelled by the academic system to say what he wanted, even though he knew that this forced students to conform to artificial forms that destroyed their own creativity.Part 3 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "compel" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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