enforce
verb (used with object)
to put or keep in force; compel obedience to.
enforcedly
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a word derived from
enforce.
Example Sentences
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He glanced at the enforcedly silent woman beside him, and something in her eyes, a gleam of triumph or sardonic amusement, or both, was tinder to his hot spirit.
From The Girl in the Mirror by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
With stiff, jerky motions Sean O'Donohue got out of the enforcedly stopped car.
From Attention Saint Patrick by Murray Leinster
The effect upon his enforcedly temperate stomach was very touching.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 'twere well; but thou Dost it enforcedly; thou'dst courtier be again Wert thou not beggar.
From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
If their workshop must be enforcedly idle for so long, they desire that when in work there shall be full blast and double tides.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
