Affray vs Coercion - What's the difference?
affray | coercion |
The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
To startle from quiet; to alarm.
* Chaucer
To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
* Shakespeare
(not countable) Actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce, coercing.
(legal, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
(countable) A specific instance of coercing.
(computing, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
As nouns the difference between affray and coercion
is that affray is the act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack while coercion is (not countable) actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce|coercing.As a verb affray
is to startle from quiet; to alarm.affray
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder.
Synonyms
* fray, brawl. * alarm, terror, fright.Verb
(en verb)- Smale foules a great heap / That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep.
- That voice doth us affray .
