Synonyms:
compulsion, coercion
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
coercion
Meaning: the act of compelling by force of authority
Usage examples
An unreasoning form of coercion
It may have been written at Henry Dunbar's dictation, and under coercion.
A new union might subsequently be formed, but the original one could never by coercion be restored.
There's a sociable circle or a confidential couple, and the relinquished volume lies open on its face and as dropped under extreme coercion.
In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings, that they gave him to wear.
This Union was not expected to be held together by coercion; the power of force as a means was denied. They sought, however, to bind it perpetually together with that which was stronger than triple bars of brass and steel--the ceaseless current of kind offices, renewing and renewed in an eternal flow, and gathering volume and velocity as it rolled.