coercively
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8.2
- adverb
- /koʊˈɜːrsɪvli/
- Offensive
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de forma coercitiva
- But governments also send help, spending tax money that is coercively collected rather than freely given.
Obviously in some situations it can be unsafe to do something about it, violent situations or coercively controlled relationships.
- Obviously in some situations it can be unsafe to do something about it, violent situations or coercively controlled relationships.
- Anybody who's trying to coercively control you and doesn't give you the space to be who you are, constant lies.
- Whereas if I coercively take a cut out a tumor of this woman or maybe grab her and and a pair her fingernails, I kidnap her.
Examples
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But there are also radical transformations of identity, sometimes imposed coercively on an individual, sometimes undertaken intentionally.
Blog text (33) -
They cannot be graced coercively or automatically, for that would violate their nature.
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The state has coercively established the rules by which society can affect change in government.
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This does not mean that the United States can act unilaterally, much less coercively, to achieve its international goals.
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Yet, no matter how the issue is classified, there is no reason why any decision over leave should not be made consensually by the parties instead of coercively by the state.
Academic text (1997) -
On the second issue regarding religious freedom, Murray claimed that "man may not be coercively constrained to act against his conscience" nor may he "be coercively restrained from acting according to his conscience, unless the action involves a civil offense" (actions against public peace, for example).
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In much the same way that the body becomes instrumentalized as a tool of the alienated agentive subject (body * self), so the land becomes coercively alienated as an exploitable resource.
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The manager coercively pressured the employees to meet unrealistic deadlines.
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During the negotiation, the company coercively forced the workers into accepting lower wages.
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The dictator ruled coercively, using threats to suppress any opposition.
Synonyms
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4.2
In a way that uses force or violence to make someone do something
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5.5
In a way that shows you might hurt or scare someone
In a threatening way that tries to control others
By using physical strength or violence to make something happen
How Coercive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coercively comes from the verb coerce, which goes back to an old Latin prefix co- 'together' and the root arcere 'to keep back'. So to act coercively is to 'hold someone back' or force them to do something, like 'restrain' or 'force', which is why it means using force or threats.