Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supporter of coercive measures or acts; specifically, in recent British history, an advocate of the Coercion Acts in Ireland.
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- noun A person who practices, or advocates
coercion (orgovernment by coercion)
Etymologies
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Examples
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These events changed Mr. Forster in a coercionist.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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He found no fault with the Irish policy '(which was strongly coercionist),' or with the foreign policy of the Cabinet; but he was anxious to defeat them on their
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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Russia was half inclined to be sympathetic, but Prussia was implacably coercionist; and the positive refusal of the crown of a united Germany by the King of Prussia, simply because it was constitutionally offered by a free German Convention.
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So, under Pitt's coercionist régime, a man was sent to prison for saying that George IV. was fat; but we feel he must have been partly sustained in prison by the artistic contemplation of how fat he was.
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Parliament might have saved us, as his splendid orations could not save us, from a disastrous war, scouted Parliamentary reform, and took his unconscious share in playing the game of the most narrow coercionist
The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896
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