Coercive is valid Scrabble Word

Is coercive a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for COERCIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

serving or intended to coerce
relating to or using force or threats
Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

serving to coerce

Words related to COERCIVE

coerce10 coercively20

Words that contain COERCIVE

coercively20 uncoercive17 noncoercive18 coerciveness19 uncoercively22 noncoercively23 coercivenesses21

How to use COERCIVE in a sentence

So deeply is the doctrine of liberty seated in our minds that we find it difficult to make allowances for the coercive practices of our misguided ancestors.
The crimes committed in that unfortunate country called loudly for coercive measures on the part of the government.
The cost of collecting tithes was enormous, from the large coercive force which the government was obliged to maintain.
This is not the place to rehearse those coercive measures, or to describe the burst of patriotic enthusiasm which swept over the Colonies to meet the issue by the sword.
It may be that when a preacher makes hell real to him by physical images of fire and torment his conviction will acquire coercive force.
I will therefore take it in this more rigorous character and see whether its claim is in effect so coercive.
It has seemed coercive to an enormous number of contemporaneous thinkers.
At the same time it favours coercive ways of affecting opinion.
Suppose that a Hague Tribunal had then been in existence, armed with coercive powers.
Any dictatorship, whether of a single man, a group or class, must rest ultimately upon oppressive and coercive force.

The iron possesses coercive force, or magnetic rigidity, and a steel ring would show more of it.
Of course these courts had no sort of real coercive powers.
They should make the penalty disgrace, rather than inflict painful or coercive sentences.
But a little machiavelism on the part of the husband will be much more likely to remedy the difficulty than any coercive measures.
From this time onward, so thick and fast did their wicked crimes increase, that coercive measures became necessary to put them down.
Their authority is no more than nominal, being without that coercive power necessary to make themselves feared and implicitly obeyed.
Our intention in sending Morris with a respectable force, was to try whether peace could be forced by a coercive enterprise on their town.
At the same time they stated, in the most unequivocal language, their strong disapproval of extreme and coercive measures.
Should they fail to do so, they are served with three warning notices at successive intervals of two months, before any step is taken in the way of coercive measures.
The late ministry and their friends attributed the disaffection which still prevailed in that unhappy country to the coercive policy of the present administration.
Wyse and Admiral Parker to suspend coercive measures, pending the friendly intervention of France.
Such coercive restriction does, in some cases, sacrifice what may be considered personal rights.
Coercive measures have little place in modern eugenics, despite the gibes of the comic press.
With regard to the States, no compulsory or coercive measures could be employed to enforce its authority, in case of opposition or indifference to its exercise.
But the most striking protest against the coercive measures finally adopted was that of Major Anderson himself.
It is as irrational to try to propagate Christianity by coercive measures of any description, as it would be to try to make plants grow by applying to them mechanical pressure.
But rapid, coercive social transformation produces neither stability nor security.
Congress was not in session to supply either the necessary coercive powers or troops.
Persuasion and kind treatment, will most generally supersede the necessity of coercive means.

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