coercibly

comparative more coercibly · superlative most coercibly

1. uncommonpossibly erroneousCoercively; in a way that is coercive; by coercion.

   I would sooner consider that a cult since my taxes are coercibly taken from me, while my contributions to the ICC are voluntary.

   1997 May 12, Roger Poehlmann (name), "Roger/Michelle Poehlmann" (username), "Re: Roger's earth-shattering rebuttal of Lifton's criteria", in alt.religion.christian.boston-church, Usenet

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   As an instrument of economic warfare, then, the "oil weapon" can be defined as the ability credibly to threaten to withhold the supply of oil from certain oil-importing nations in order coercibly to effect a change in their political stance.

   1980, The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies, →ISBN

   […] the vast and heavy communitarianism that seems to have regulated the immobile mechanics of oriental empires, or hordes, or Aztecs, not to mention Stalin, no doubt, with his “oriental” communist despotism enforcing commonality coercibly.

   2013, Denis Guénoun, About Europe: Philosophical Hypotheses, →ISBN, page 218

2. rarepossibly erroneousAs a result of coercion; having been coerced; in a coerced manner.

   Industry will meet this obligation either voluntarily or coercibly through taxes.

   1960, The National Underwriter, volume 64, page 161

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   Had the Persians, however, not transported those Paionians farther east, we must consider that hundreds of other Skudrians had also entered Asia and traveled to Parsa, either freely or coercibly.

   1995, Jack Martin Balcer, The Persian Conquest of the Greeks, 545-450 B.C., page 152