1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. i. 113 Working..the corollary from the logic of his word-compelling colleague.
1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in (1890) IV. 139 The..word-compelling Dante.
1948 O. St. J. Gogarty 217 Yeats hated hatred. This probably explains why one so word-compelling had few terms of invective or of scorn.