DURESS
\djʊ͡əɹˈɛs], \djʊəɹˈɛs], \d_j_ʊə_ɹ_ˈɛ_s]\
Definitions of DURESS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
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To subject to duress.
By Oddity Software
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Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
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To subject to duress.
By Noah Webster.
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To subject to duress.
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Constraint; imprisonment; restraint of liberty, or threat of violence, to compel a man to do some act, or the plea of exculpation by one who has been so forced.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Restraint of personal liberty by fear or physical force; the compelling a person to do some act; as, the man had committed the act under duress and therefore escaped severe punishment; imprisonment.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Constraint; compulsion; imprisonment. duresse.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] Hardship; constraint; imprisonment;—restraint of liberty.
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