Duress vs Coerced - What's the difference?
duress | coerced |
(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.
(coerce), being forced
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
(computing) to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
As verbs the difference between duress and coerced
is that duress is to put under ; to pressure while coerced is (coerce), being forced.As a noun duress
is (obsolete) harsh treatment.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.