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compulsion
(encz) | compulsion,donucení n: Zdeněk Brož |
compulsion
(encz) | compulsion,nucení n: Zdeněk Brož |
compulsion
(encz) | compulsion,nutkání n: Zdeněk Brož |
compulsion
(encz) | compulsion,přinucení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Compulsion
(gcide) | Compulsion \Com*pul"sion\, n. [L. compulsio. See Compel.]
The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the
act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral
constraint; subjection to force.
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If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would
give no man a reason upon compulsion. --Shak.
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With what compulsion and laborious flight
We sunk thus low. --Milton.
Syn: See Constraint.
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compulsion
(wn) | compulsion
n 1: an urge to do or say something that might be better left
undone or unsaid; "he felt a compulsion to babble on about
the accident" [syn: compulsion, irresistible impulse]
2: an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive
actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her
hands repeatedly" [syn: compulsion, obsession]
3: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into
rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they
didn't have to use coercion" [syn: compulsion, coercion] |
compulsion
(devil) | COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
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compulsion
(encz) | compulsion,donucení n: Zdeněk Brožcompulsion,nucení n: Zdeněk Brožcompulsion,nutkání n: Zdeněk Brožcompulsion,přinucení n: Zdeněk Brož |
compulsion
(wn) | compulsion
n 1: an urge to do or say something that might be better left
undone or unsaid; "he felt a compulsion to babble on about
the accident" [syn: compulsion, irresistible impulse]
2: an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive
actions, even against your will; "her compulsion to wash her
hands repeatedly" [syn: compulsion, obsession]
3: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into
rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they
didn't have to use coercion" [syn: compulsion, coercion] |
compulsion
(devil) | COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
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