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Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment..

Uneasy :: Uneasy (a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

Orphean :: Orphean (a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains..

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate..

Troubadour :: Troubadour (n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain..

Intemperately :: Intemperately (adv.) In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.

Enforce :: Enforce (v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands..

Free Will :: Free will () The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

Restrainer :: Restrainer (n.) One who, or that which, restrains..

Fain :: Fain (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained..

Strain :: Strain (v. i.) To make violent efforts.

Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis..

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.

Monotonist :: Monotonist (n.) One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.

Strainably :: Strainable (a.) Violent in action.

Deliverance :: Deliverance (n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint..

Incontinency :: Incontinency (n.) The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine..

Morendo :: Morendo (a. & n.) Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.

Headstrong :: Headstrong (a.) Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.

Bated :: Bated (a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath..

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