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coercing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coerce \Co*erce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coerced; p. pr. & vb. n. Coercing.] [L. co["e]rcere; co- + arcere to shut up, to press together. See Ark.]
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To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
--Burke.Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort.
--Ayliffe. To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.
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To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.
Syn: To Coerce, Compel.
Usage: To compel denotes to urge on by force which cannot be resisted. The term aplies equally to physical and moral force; as, compelled by hunger; compelled adverse circumstances; compelled by parental affection. Coerce had at first only the negative sense of checking or restraining by force; as, to coerce a bad man by punishments or a prisoner with fetters. It has now gained a positive sense., viz., that of driving a person into the performance of some act which is required of him by another; as, to coerce a man to sign a contract; to coerce obedience. In this sense (which is now the prevailing one), coerce differs but little from compel, and yet there is a distinction between them. Coercion is usually acomplished by indirect means, as threats and intimidation, physical force being more rarely employed in coercing.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of coerce English)
Usage examples of "coercing".
Other administration officials would assure the press that we have not yet made a decision to invade and that the buildup of forces is intended to give the president a range of options, from coercing Saddam to comply with a new containment regime up to and including an invasion if that became necessary.
Buchanan, the last President of the old school, would as soon have thought of aiding in the establishment of a monarchy among us as of accepting the doctrine of coercing the States into submission to the will of a majority, in mass, of the people of the United States.
How this effort was received, how the Commissioners were kept waiting, and, while fair promises were held to the ear, how military preparations were pushed forward for the unconstitutional, criminal purpose of coercing States, let the shameful record of that transaction attest.
Both refused to furnish troops to the United States Government for the unconstitutional purpose of coercing the Southern States.
State, which forty years before had been admitted to the Union, against sectional resistance to the right guaranteed by the Constitution, and specifically denominated in the treaty for the acquisition of Louisiana, now, because her Governor refused to furnish troops for the unconstitutional purpose of coercing States, became the subject of special hostility and the object of extraordinary efforts for her subjugation.
A hard worker with a knack for persuading or coercing those who worked under him into being the same, he had been made overseer within a year.
There is Napoleon coercing five hundred thousand young men into wintry Moscow, and Augustus goading three hundred thirty thousand others up and down Europe.
It is interesting in the campo in these early days, before the effect of the government's measures for coercing the opinions of the populace is fully declared.