Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: enforced
IPA transcription: [ɛnf'ɔɹst]
Pronunciations of enforced
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: enforced, implemented
    Meaning: forced or compelled or put in force; "a life of enforced inactivity"; "enforced obedience"
Usage examples
  • "But," she added, with a smile, "would your silence be voluntary, or enforced?"
  • Painfully and with enforced mental readjustments, they began a philosophical search for excuses and justifications for the idea.
  • To be socially important and expressible in some common medium, initial differences in temper must be organised into custom and become cumulative by being imitated and enforced.
  • The degrees of scholastick, as of military punishment, no stated rules can ascertain. It must be enforced till it overpowers temptation; till stubbornness becomes flexible, and perverseness regular.
  • No scholar has gone from him either blind or lame, or with any of his limbs or powers injured or impaired. They were irregular, and he punished them: they were obstinate, and he enforced his punishment.
  • Now, said Galahad, is she here for whom this castle was lost? Nay sir, said the priest, she was dead within these three nights after that she was thus enforced; and sithen have they kept her younger sister, which endureth great pains with mo other ladies.
  • For this reason, I have noted the dream of a young girl, that consisted of a menu following her name (Anna F......, strawberry, huckleberry, egg-dish, pap), as a reaction to an enforced day of fasting on account of a spoiled stomach, which was directly traceable to the eating of the fruits twice mentioned in the dream.
  • Physically active children become restless and unruly; the more quiescent, so-called conscientious ones spend what energy they have in the negative task of keeping their instincts and active tendencies suppressed, instead of in a positive one of constructive planning and execution; they are thus educated not into responsibility for the significant and graceful use of bodily powers, but into an enforced duty not to give them free play.
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