compulsion, coercion
(noun) using force to cause something to occur; “though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game”; “they didn’t have to use coercion”
coercion
(noun) the act of compelling by force of authority
Source: WordNet® 3.1
coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)
(not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
(legal, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
(countable) A specific instance of coercing.
(programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
(linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
• noncoercion
• type coercion
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.
• criocone
Source: Wiktionary
Co*er"cion, n. Etym: [L. coercio, fr. coercere. See Coerce.]
1. The act or process of coercing.
2. (Law)
Definition: The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 February 2025
(noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; “the state has lowered its income tax”
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