Duress vs Reluctance - What's the difference?
duress | reluctance |
(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.
Unwillingness to do something.
Hesitancy in taking some action.
(physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
As nouns the difference between duress and reluctance
is that duress is (obsolete) harsh treatment while reluctance is unwillingness to do something.As a verb duress
is to put under ; 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.
