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Compulsatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as compulsative.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.
  • Word Usage
    "'The step she so freely blames herself for taking, was truly what she calls compulsatory: for though she was provoked to think of going off with me, she intended it not, nor was provided to do so: neither would she ever have had the thought of it, had her relations left her free, upon her offered composition to renounce the man she did not hate, in order to avoid the man she did."
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