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  • noun Plural form of coercionist.

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Examples

  • Indeed, if this were otherwise, our Constitution, as claimed by secessionists and anti-coercionists, at home and abroad, would have been

    The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • In this dilemma great multitudes of Northern Democrats, whose consciences had never been in the least disturbed by the existence of slavery in the country or even by efforts to extend it, became “Union men” in the Northern sense of the word, which made it about equivalent to coercionists.

    Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

  • Durham, in the case of Canada, saw the truth, and swept into the limbo of discredited bogies the old figments of the coercionists.

    The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

  • Who can tell whether some touch of remorse did not enter into the heart of the man who up to that time had been the greatest of Irish coercionists since Castlereagh, when he saw with his own eyes the sorry plight of the poorest people in Europe -- the people who, in the opinion of General

    Home Rule Second Edition Harold Spender 1895

  • He nominated as his staff, to every department of the public service, notorious abolitionists and unrelenting coercionists.

    Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

  • Cabinet -- certain members of it urging measures of prompt and decided coercion; the Secretary of State favoring a pacific or at least a dilatory policy; and the President vacillating for a time between the two, but eventually adopting the views of the coercionists.

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848

  • That Seward and his friends were no less alarmed than Douglas, at the prospect of Lincoln's falling under the influence of the coercionists, is a matter of record. [

    Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900

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