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- verb Present participle of
deforce .
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Examples
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The captain was at first furious, and determined to resist; but he knew the danger of deforcing an officer with, such a writ as a habeas corpus, and found it necessary to yield.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836
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Nanty Ewart had now given the helm to one of his people, a bald-pated, grizzled old fellow, whose whole life had been spent in evading the revenue laws, with now and then the relaxation of a few months 'imprisonment, for deforcing officers, resisting seizures, and the like offences.
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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Galashiels, with purpose of deforcing them as far as St. Boswell's
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Nanty Ewart had now given the helm to one of his people, a bald-pated, grizzled old fellow, whose whole life had been spent in evading the revenue laws, with now and then the relaxation of a few months’ imprisonment, for deforcing officers, resisting seizures, and the like offences.
Redgauntlet 2008
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