different between strength vs coercion
strength
English
Etymology
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong +? -th. Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /st???k?/, [st??????k?], [st?????n??]
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): [st??????k?]
- Rhymes: -???, -?n?
Noun
strength (countable and uncountable, plural strengths)
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[1]
- Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
- Antonym: weakness
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[1]
- The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 46.1,[2]
- God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Examplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution, London: Francis Ash, Part 1, Section 4, Discourse 2, p. 66,[3]
- […] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […] .
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 46.1,[2]
- A positive attribute.
- Antonym: weakness
- (obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- Thou princely leader of our English strength,
- Never so needful on the earth of France,
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, Scene 1,[5]
- That done, dissever your united strengths,
- And part your mingled colours once again;
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7, lines 140-143,[6]
- All like himself rebellious, by whose aid
- This inaccessible high strength, the seat
- Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
- He trusted to have seis’d […]
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
strength (third-person singular simple present strengths, present participle strengthing, simple past and past participle strengthed)
- (obsolete) To strengthen (all senses). [12th-17th c.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:strengthen
strength From the web:
- what strength reading glasses do i need
- what strengthens nails
- what strengthens the cell membrane
- what strengthens bones
- what strengthens teeth
- what strengthens your immune system
- what strength reading glasses with contacts
- what strength developer do i need
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
coercion From the web:
- what coercion means
- what coercion a person to obey another
- what's coercion in law
- coercion what does it mean
- coercion what is the definition
- what is coercion in business law
- what is coercion in java
- what is coercion in javascript
you may also like
- strength vs coercion
- converse vs utter
- solace vs enliven
- bid vs allege
- diversity vs preference
- hostile vs passionless
- unlikeness vs dissent
- yelp vs stammer
- tear vs ride
- friendly vs grand
- stagger vs straggle
- loyality vs constancy
- repulsive vs unpopular
- projection vs foothold
- brainless vs trifling
- intelligent vs tantalizing
- sovereign vs splendid
- shock vs assemblage
- meeting vs conjoined
- used vs passe