All 6 Uses
compel
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- Though he was compelled to look up to Richard, he did so with his head at an odd and belligerent angle, as though he were looking up in order more clearly to sight down.†
p. 161.1compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- He was menaced in a way that they were not, and it was perhaps this sense, and the instinct which compels people to move away from the doomed, which accounted for the invincible distance, increasing with the years, which stretched between himself and his contemporaries.†
p. 200.4compels = forces; or (more rarely) convinces
- They endured her song, therefore, but they held themselves outside it; and yet, at the same time, the very arrogance and innocence of Ida's offering compelled their admiration.†
p. 256.6compelled = forced; or (more rarely) convinced
- Eric was compelled to be still during this entire brief scene, while the students around him wrangled; his head was thrown back and up, against the wall, his eyes were closed; and he seemed scarcely to move at all.†
p. 329.6
- She could break him: for, to match her will, he would be compelled to descend to stratagems far beneath him.†
p. 368.3 *
- He felt fantastically protected, liberated, by the knowledge that, no matter where, once the clawing day descended, he felt compelled to go, no matter what happened to him from now until he died, and even, or perhaps especially, if they should never lie in each other's arms again, there was a man in the world who loved him.†
p. 387.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do somethingMost typically, compel describes an external influence forcing someone to do something, but it can also describe being driven by an internal desire. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)