Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being coerced; too weak to resist effectively.
  • Capable of being condensed, especially of being reduced by condensation to the liquid state: applied to gases.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being coerced.

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  • adjective Susceptible to coercion.

Etymologies

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coerce +‎ -ible

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Examples

  • If there were a coercible allocation of resources more efficient than CDSs or earthquake insurance, how would you know?

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Hey, Lets Look at More Financial Sector Charts! 2008

  • In the Feyerabend lectures, Kant notes that right is the subset of morally correct actions that are also coercible (27: 1327).

    Kant's Social and Political Philosophy Rauscher, Frederick 2007

  • This version of deontology is aptly labeled Libertarian in that it cannot accommodate any strong (that is, enforceable or coercible) duty to aid others.

    Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007

  • (This point also demonstrates that any deontological theory that posits a strong, coercible duty to aid will be agent-neutral, not agent-relative; everyone has duties correlative to everyone's right not to be used.)

    Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007

  • It is merely a dangerous game of generational socialism, and “works” only as long as there are more coercible contributors than there are willing recipients.

    Wealth creation and the doctors of doublespeak 2005

  • It is merely a dangerous game of generational socialism, and “works” only as long as there are more coercible contributors than there are willing recipients.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • Far from the linear development of the voluntary to the coercible grounds of obedience which is the superficial historical scheme of the idea of authority in the West, the actual history which emerges from the blend of philological and categorical methods re - veals a spiral process from the ancient Romans to the present.

    AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

  • In fact, they are rather uncomplimentary in describing the bill - "useless, poorly drafted, burdensome, potentially coercible, most abusable piece of legislation."

    SiliconIndia.com 2010

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