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Revision as of 16:37, 6 November 2021
See also: compulsión
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsiō, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kəm-pŭl'shən
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Noun
compulsion (countable and uncountable, plural compulsions)
- An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
- During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
- The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
- 2016 January 17, "Wealthy cabals run America," Al Jazeera America (retrieved 18 January 2016):
- But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”
- 2016 January 17, "Wealthy cabals run America," Al Jazeera America (retrieved 18 January 2016):
- The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
Related terms
Translations
irrational need to perform some action
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use of power to force a person to act
lawful use of violence
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Further reading
- “compulsion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “compulsion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “compulsion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
compulsion f (plural compulsions)
Related terms
Further reading
- “compulsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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