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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
force .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ho, thou who forcest fortalice and overthrowest cities and countries! up and out to battle bout, and blade single handed wield with one who halves with thee the field!
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Even the natural appetite of love thou forcest prematurely by every means thou mayest devise, confounding the sexes in thy service.
Memorabilia 2007
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The meaning then will be, thou forcest me to dismiss thee from the world in the state of the murdered without preparation for death, when I intended that thy punishment should have been “a sacrifice” atoning for thy crime.
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Thou forcest many to think differently about thee; that, charge they heavily to thine account.
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Why dost thou not suffer me to depart after a message of glad tidings, but forcest me to tell calamities?
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Whatever the object, O Desire, upon which thou settest thy heart, thou forcest me to pursue it!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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'Why forcest thou me to break long silence and proclaim my hidden pain?
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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If I loved thee, I should say so, and all force would be superfluous: if not, it would be not only useless, but injurious to thy own cause, seeing that the more thou forcest, the less wilt thou obtain: nay, whereas now thou art indifferent, thou wilt bring it about that I shall hate thee in the end, as I am beginning to do a very little even now.
The Substance of a Dream F. W. Bain
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And for his helth he and his men was forcest to Retier to the Iland of
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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He whom thou forcest to wake up will not remain asleep.
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