forcement
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See also: forcément
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]forcement
- (obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.
- 1607, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, Sir Thomas Wyat:
- It was imposed upon us by constraint; and will you count such forcement treachery?
References
[edit]- “forcement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]forcement m (plural forcements)
- fixing number; cooking the books
Further reading
[edit]- “forcement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.