Duress vs Coercion - What's the difference?
duress | coercion |
(obsolete) Harsh treatment.
* Burke
Constraint by threat.
(legal) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restraint of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offence.
To put under ; to pressure.
(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 duress and coercion
is that duress is harsh treatment while coercion is actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.As a verb duress
is to put under duress; to pressure.duress
English
Noun
(-)- The agreements made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
Verb
(es)- Someone was duressing her.
- The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.
