Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to coerce; coercive.
- noun That which coerces; a coercive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Coercive.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
coercive .
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Examples
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Whether behavior is involuntary or based on freewill depends on one's level of disfavor, as well as other complex factors:::::May I remind you about the coercitive envionment the Gods created in the 20th century, specifically to create a temptation that few Italians or their associates would overcome:::We're in control.
Meetup Roll Call 2006
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Compressed steel, like tempered steel, acquires the coercitive force which enables it to absorb magnetism.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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From these passages it is very clearly discerned that bishops have the power not only of the ministry of the Word of God, but also of ruling and coercitive correction in order to direct subjects to the goal of eternal blessedness.
The Confutatio Pontificia Johann Michael Reu 1906
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Paul also displays his coercitive disposition when he says: "What will ye?
The Confutatio Pontificia Johann Michael Reu 1906
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But spermaceti is also a _conductor_, though in so low a degree that we can trace the process of conduction, as it were, step by step through the mass (1247.); and even when the electric force has travelled through it to a certain distance, we can, by removing the coercitive (which is at the same time the inductive) force, cause it to return upon its path and reappear in its first place (1245. 1246.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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Other issues force limits/ceilings upon candidates::: Abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, Christianity, godlessness, Whether behavior is involuntary or based on freewill depends on one's level of disfavor, as well as other complex factors::::: May I remind you about the coercitive envionment the Gods created in the 20th century, specifically to create a temptation that few Italians (or their associates) would overcome::: "We're in control.
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Other issues force limits/ceilings upon candidates::: Abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, Christianity, godlessness, Whether behavior is involuntary or based on freewill depends on one's level of disfavor, as well as other complex factors::::: May I remind you about the coercitive envionment the Gods created in the 20th century, specifically to create a temptation that few Italians (or their associates) would overcome::: "We're in control.
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