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单词 compellent
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compellentadj.

Forms: Also compellant.
Etymology: < Latin compellent-em present participle of compellĕre to compel v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: comˈpellent.
Compelling, constraining.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective]
strainable1483
compellatory?a1562
coactive1593
inforcive1596
enforcive1598
coercivea1600
constraining1602
constraintive1602
pulsive1602
compulsive1604
compulsatory1610
compellinga1616
compulsativea1616
compulsory1631
coercitive1632
coactinga1641
enforcinga1657
coercent1660
imposing1665
cogent1672
compellent1847
high-pressured1868
coercionary1884
steamroller1896
1847 E. B. Browning in Blackwood's Mag. 61 555 Most full of invocation, and to be Most instantly compellant.
1873 R. Congreve Ess. (1874) 480 The compellent contagion of great examples.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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