Both Uses of
compulsion
in
Light in August
- that spontaneous compulsion of the male to fight with or because of or over the partner with which he has recently or is about to copulate.
Chpt 7 *compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
- He had grown to manhood in the country, where like the unswimming sailor his physical shape and his thought had been molded by its compulsions without his learning anything about its actual shape and feel.†
Chpt 14compulsions = urges or requirements to do things
Definition:
a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something; or a force or a requirement that forces an action