coercion
noun
the act of coercing; use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
Example Sentences
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It has a truthful framework about the troubled-teen industry, but it’s also a cult genre thriller, and cults are such a great analogy for the coerciveness of society.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
Bulatov is fascinated by the ^ seepage of official art language, in all its enthusiasm and coerciveness, through daily life.
From Time Magazine Archive
For sheer arbitrary coerciveness, nothing in the armory of the union is so effective as the boycott.
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth
It is sufficient here to deal with her coerciveness, and recall the epithet “child-queller” which Dickens applied to her.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Such an analysis will thoroughly display the processes of your reasoning, and enable you to criticize them step by step for soundness and coerciveness.
From The Making of Arguments by J. H. Gardiner
