[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That compels: see the verb.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. ii. 141. Vnder a compelling occasion.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., xxix. With such compelling cause to grieve.
Hence Compellingly adv.
1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., § 2 (R.). Probably, obscurely, peradventure: but not evidently, compellingly, necessarily.
1887. Mary Linskill, In Exchange for a Soul, III. lxv. 253–4. What did it matter that he was not a stranger? that her hand was laid compellingly upon the arm of Damian Aldenmede?
