All 4 Uses
compulsion
in
A Wrinkle in Time
(Edited)
- You might call it a compulsion.
p. 39.5compulsion = a strong urge to do something
- Do you know what compulsion means?
p. 39.5
- Calvin tried now politely to direct his words toward Meg as well as Charles Wallace, "When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me."
p. 39.9
- And I told you it was because I had a compulsion, a feeling I just had to come to that particular place at that particular moment?
p. 126.6 *
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)