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Definition of Compelling
1. Adjective. Driving or forcing. "Compelling ambition"
2. Adjective. Tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument. "New and compelling evidence"
Definition of Compelling
1. Verb. (present participle of compel) ¹
2. Adjective. requiring urgent attention ¹
3. Adjective. forceful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compelling
1. compel [v] - See also: compel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compelling
Literary usage of Compelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... is not well founded in The lirst assignment asserts that the circuit court
had no jurisdiction over the cause and parties for compelling the City of New ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... 5x6 Th' undaunted guard of cloud-compelling Jove< When the bright partner of
his awful reign, The warlike maid, and monarch of the main, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"compelling the accused to submit to inspection by the jury or to stand up for
identification.—The accused cannot object if he be identified in open court ..."
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