enforcedadj.
/ɛnˈfɔːst/ 1. That is subjected to force or constraint. rare.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > compelled (of persons)
coactc1430
needyc1430
constrained1609
compulsive1611
obtruded1649
enforced1654
necessary1724
necessiated1727
compulsory1806
coerced1836
bulldozered1876
pressured1889
1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. 74 This concurse..of the water doth take down with it into the bottom of the deeps the enforced spirit, and there suffocates and keeps it down, etc.
1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. cxlvi. 134 They pleaded themselves enforced agents.
2. That is forced upon or exacted from a person; that is produced by force; forced, constrained.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > done, produced, or obtained by compulsion
threata1400
constraintc1430
compelled1541
compulsed1541
violent?1550
extorted1552
wrested1565
coacted1570
enforced1576
forced1576
compulsory1581
commandeda1586
coactive1596
infortiate1601
extortious1602
coact1610
compulsive1611
exacted1618
necessitous1632
violented1641
necessary1655
on-forced1656
commandatorya1659
extorsive1669
compellable1677
compulsatory1748
obbligato1780
coerced1877
mandatory1891
shotgun1937
1576 A. Fleming tr. Epimenides in Panoplie Epist. 203 He hath constrayned such to yeelde to inforced obedience and servitude.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. v. 9 Gastly lookes Are at my seruice like inforced smiles. View more context for this quotation
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis v. x. 364 The slauery of an inforced marriage.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 128 A country where a degraded class is held to enforced labour.
1868 A. Helps Realmah v. 68 How Sir John could have endured the enforced silence.
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