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Definition of Coercion
1. Noun. The act of compelling by force of authority.
2. Noun. Using force to cause something to occur. "They didn't have to use coercion"
Generic synonyms: Causation, Causing
Specialized synonyms: Constructive Eviction, Eviction
Derivative terms: Coerce, Compel
Definition of Coercion
1. n. The act or process of coercing.
Definition of Coercion
1. Noun. (context: not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. ¹
2. Noun. (context: 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. ¹
3. Noun. A specific instance of coercing. ¹
4. Noun. (context: computing countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coercion
1. the act of coercing [n -S]
Medical Definition of Coercion
1. The process of compelling a person to act, or refrain from acting, contrary to his free choice often by use of threat of physical or moral force. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coercion
Literary usage of Coercion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"His command to commit the offence, is in law deemed coercion. ... (1) It seems
that, for any crime committed by the wife, without the coercion or Dot in the ..."
2. Law as a Means to an End by Rudolf von Jhering (1914)
"The second lever of social order is coercion. The social organization of reward
... By coercion in the wider sense we understand the realization of a ..."
3. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1915)
"The reformed parliament in England under Grey's leadership practically initiated
the system of seeking to pacify Ireland by coercion. removing grievances ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"Violence and coercion. If violence or coercion exist or are threatened, different
principles ... The use of coercion is very generally held to be illegal, ..."
5. Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America by Eben Greenough Scott (1895)
"Condition of affairs at the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln — coercion, ...
Inaugural Address and answer to the Virginia Commissioners — coercion — The ..."
6. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"The ground on which a married woman is prima facie not criminally liable for
wrongful acts done in the presence of her husband is coercion, ..."
7. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1889)
"Immediately that the second reading of the Corn Bill had been accepted he therefore,
through Sir James Graham, introduced the coercion Bill. ..."
8. A Selection of Cases and Other Authorities Upon Criminal Law by Joseph Henry Beale (1915)
"And the justices out of pity would not accept her confession, but took a jury;
by which it was found that she did it by coercion of her husband, ..."
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