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unˈforced, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not compelled or constrained.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Colonies 513 Being fed..With wholesome Fruits of an un-forced soyl. 1624Heywood Gunaik. v. 231 Artimesia..unforced and uncompeld followed the expedition of Xerxes against Greece. 1697Dryden æneis xi. 654 Why thus, unforced, should we so tamely yield? 1741Richardson Pamela III. 248 He will judge us according to the unforced and unbyassed Use we make of that Light. 1805Wordsw. To the Daisy 52 Unforced by wind or wave To quit the Ship for which he died. 188419th Cent. Mar. 436 The unforced zeal and docility of the horse.
b. Of plants: Not produced out of season.
1868Daily News 8 July, Some of the fuchsias..would have borne comparison with any unforced flowers of their class.
2. Not pushed beyond the natural limits; not produced by exertion or effort; easy, natural.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 239 This granted (as it is a most pregnant and vnforc'd position) who stands so eminent..as Cassio do's? 1665J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 52 All the great Prophets..delivered themselves in a natural and unforc'd order of words. 1717Addison tr. Ovid's Met. iii. Notes, Wks. 1721 I. 242 This is one of Ovid's finished stories. The transition to it is proper and unforced. 1790Paley Horæ Paul. xii. §2 Here we have a fair unforced example of coincidence. 1850Irving Goldsmith i. 17 The unforced humour, blending so happily with good feeling and good sense. 1883D. C. Murray Hearts ix, His objections..were unforced and genuine.
3. Requiring or involving no physical exertion.
1643Denham Cooper's H. 42 With such an easie and unforc't ascent. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy viii. xix, By an unforced compression..of his cap with the thumb and the two forefingers.
Hence unˈforcedly adv.; unˈforcedness.
1632G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xiii. Notes 451 This may vnforcedly admit of the former interpretation. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 261 The naturalness and unforcedness of this Imbibition shall be made good. 1696M. Henry Life P. Henry iv. Wks. 1853 II. 647/1 Such a distribution as the matter did most easily and unforcedly fall into. |