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Webster 1913 Edition
Coercion
1.
The act or process of coercing.
2.
(Law)
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. “Coactus volui” (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
Wharton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Coercion
COERCION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
coercion
coercion
See also: coerción
English
Noun
coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)
- (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
Derived terms
Translations
actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
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use of force to compel
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instance of coercing
computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
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Trivia
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.[1][2]