different between coercion vs coercer
coercion
English
Etymology
From Old French cohercion, from Latin coerciti? (“magisterial coercion”), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arce? (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko?????n/, /ko?????n/
Noun
coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)
- (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
Antonyms
- noncoercion
Hyponyms
- type coercion
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Trivia
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.
References
- coercion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “coercion” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- coercion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- coercion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- criocone
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coercer
English
Etymology
coerce +? -er
Noun
coercer (plural coercers)
- One who coerces.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Prometheus of Aeschylus
- Jove the binder of reluctant powers, the coercer and entrancer of free spirits under the fetters of shape and mass and passive mobility […]
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Prometheus of Aeschylus
Antonyms
- coercee
Related terms
- coerce
- coercible
- coercion
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