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▪ I. enforcing, vbl. n.|ɛnˈfɔəsɪŋ|
[f. enforce v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. enforce in its various senses. † concr. that which enforces.
138.Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 245 Of sich enforsinge mote nedis come mede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. iv. (1495) 31 Aungels dystroye the reeses and the enforcynges of fendes. c1440Gesta Rom. xxxi. 116 (Harl. MS.) When the lion had sight of hem, he Ran to him with a cruell enforsynge. c1449Pecock Repr. iv. iv. 446 This hool argument with alle hise enforcingis. 1531Elyot Gov. i. v. (1883) I. 35 Without any violence or inforsinge. c1610–5Female Saints (1866) 80 After long enforcing she must needes yield nature her due. 1641H. Ainsworth Orth. Foundat. Relig. 12 Love is the inforcing, or motive of the Will, to the thing loved.
▪ II. enˈforcing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That enforces or presses upon.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, clxiv, The thin-film'd Bladder breakes Prest with the burthen of enforceing Ayre. 1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar ii. 12 A drink invented by an enforcing necessity.
Hence enˈforcingly adv., in a forcible manner; earnestly, impressively.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xliv. 5 Onlesse it bee put enforcingly for assurance sake. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. 9, I am wished to write more enforcingly to you. |