duressor

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noun

Someone who subjects another to duress.

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Meanings

nounduressor (plural duressors)

plural duressors

  1. lawSomeone who subjects another to duress.

    if you will deliver me that piece of plate , now the duress is discharged ; and yet if it had been moved from the duressor , who had said at the first you shall take this peece of Plate , and make me a bond[…]

    1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law

Origin

From duress + -or.

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Chicago

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