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Coercion   /koʊˈərʃən/   Listen
Coercion

noun
1.
The act of compelling by force of authority.
2.
Using force to cause something to occur.  Synonym: compulsion.  "They didn't have to use coercion"





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"Coercion" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing. A threat of dismissal is coercion, and if these men want to keep their jobs they'll have to ...
— Day of the Moron • Henry Beam Piper
... in our hands a far better interpreter than he could ever have been. This girl of our own race would need no urging, or coercion, on our part in order to induce her to reveal any secrets of the Martians that might be useful in our ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss
... the judgment of the individual operator, making our instructions take more the form of constant teaching of principles involved in the operation than of definite fixed rules of procedure. It is necessary to produce a desire in the heart of the workman to do good work. No amount of coercion will enlist ...
— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot
... with unchanged scorn, "will never submit to such coercion. When you dare to dictate to me, you mistake my character utterly. What I have to give I will give freely. My gifts shall never be extorted from me, even though my life should depend upon my compliance or refusal. The tone which you have chosen to adopt toward me is scarcely one that will ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... field.—"Harleian Manuscripts;" Stowe, "Chronicle of Tewksbury;" Sharon Turner, vol. iii. p. 335.] It is also noticeable, that when, not as Shakspeare represents, but after long solicitation, and apparently by positive coercion, Anne formed her second marriage, she seems to have been kept carefully by Richard from his gay brother's court, and rarely, if ever, to have appeared in London till Edward was ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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