Dictionary entry

Compulsion

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

Shak.

With what compulsion and laborious flight

We sunk thus low.

Milton.

Syn. — See Constraint.