Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who coerces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who practices
coercion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The federal government's role should not be coercer but informer and encourager.
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The federal government's role should not be coercer but informer and encourager.
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Let the president be seen as the coercer-in-chief.
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Let the president be seen as the coercer-in-chief.
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Even if this particular problem is solved, if I get a piece of paper indicating how I voted, I can sell my vote and prove how I voted or I can be coerced into a particular vote and the coercer can get confirmation of that vote.
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Secondly, a man is said to be subject to a law as the coerced is subject to the coercer.
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God, by whose authority this transformation is effected, has implanted in us the invincible conviction that the power to coerce, which He gives, implies an obligation on the part of the coercer to respect voluntarily that which he compels others to observe.
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With weak secrecy, the buyer or coercer can demand proof.
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With weak secrecy, the buyer or coercer can demand proof.
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There is also reason to doubt that what the coercer did in such cases rises to meet the bar at which we should consider it coercive.
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