Both Uses
compulsion
in
Sula
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- For that reason she felt no compulsion to verify herself—be consistent with herself.†
Chpt 1939 *compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
- Now the compulsion to activity, to filling up the time when he was not happily fishing on the riverbank, had dwindled.†
Chpt 1941
Definitions:
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(1)
(compulsion) a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something; or a force or a requirement that forces an action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)