Loath vs Coercion - What's the difference?
loath | coercion |
unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined
* 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
*:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
(obsolete) hostile, angry, loathsome, unpleasant
(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 an adjective loath
is unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined.As a noun coercion is
actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.loath
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Alternative forms
* loth (mostly UK)Adjective
(er)- I was loath to return to the office without the Henderson file.
