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单词 duress
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duressn.

Brit. /djʊˈrɛs/, /dʒʊˈrɛs/, /ˈdjʊərɪs/, U.S. /d(j)əˈrɛs/
Forms: Middle English–1800s duresse, Middle English duresce, (Middle English dwresse, dewresse), Middle English–1600s dures, 1600s– duress.
Etymology: < obsolete French duresse, -esce, -ece, hardness, oppression, constraint < Latin dūritia (= dūritiēs), noun of quality < dūrus hard.
1. Hardness; roughness, violence, severity; hardiness of endurance, resistance, etc.; firmness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [noun]
tartnessc1000
asperity?c1225
hardship?c1225
smartness1340
duressc1400
straitnessc1460
hardlaikc1540
severeness1579
sorenessa1586
grievousness1611
severity1835
sting1860
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [noun]
rethenesseOE
grimness971
sternhead1297
sharpnessa1325
reddoura1375
sternness1382
fiercenessc1384
sturdinessc1384
duressc1400
fellnessc1410
austeritya1425
harshnessc1480
roughness1530
severity1530
durity1543
ungentleness1548
severeness1579
ruggedness1638
atrocity1641
austereness1646
piquancya1677
Draconianism1819
astringency1823
Draconism1832
starkness1884
the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun] > capacity for moral effort or endurance
thildc950
strengthOE
dureec1330
rankc1400
tolerance1412
adamant1445
toleration1531
validity1578
durance1579
bent1604
strongness1650
duress1651
strength1667
durableness1740
stamina1803
willpower1842
backbone1843
thewness1860
sand1867
upbearing1885
wiriness1892
gut1893
sisu1926
c1400 Test. Love i. i By duresse of sorowe.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 135/2 Dwresse, or hardenesse, duricies.
c1460 R. Roos tr. Belle Dame sans Mercy 463 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1866) 67 An herte of suche duresse..ye wynne al this diffame by cruelte.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 22 What he did was done by duress of minde.
2. Harsh or severe treatment, infliction of hardship; oppression, cruelty; harm, injury; affliction.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun]
threat971
duressc1320
defoulc1330
tyrantry1340
tyrannyc1368
oppressinga1382
overleadinga1382
tyrandisea1382
overlayingc1384
oppression1387
oversettinga1398
thronga1400
overpressingc1450
impressionc1470
tyrantshipc1470
tyrannesse?a1475
aggravation1481
defouling1483
supprissiona1500
oppressmentc1537
conculcation1547
iron hand?1570
thrall1578
tyrannizing1589
tyranting1596
ingrating1599
pressure1616
regrate1621
overpressure1644
slavishness1684
iron heel1798
1292 Britton v. iii. §1 Sauntz duresce fere.]
c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2189 Ac yif thou do thi sone duresse.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1074 Þe duresse þat he wrouȝt.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 118 The wolfe in fieldis the shepe doth grete duresse.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 189 Thair scharp assayes mycht do no dures To me.
1673 in Jackson's Wks. (1844) IX. 271 Taught to hunt counter for pleasure, and seek delights in difficulties and duresses.
3.
a. Forcible restraint or restriction; confinement, imprisonment; = durance n. 5.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun]
prisonOE
bonda1225
beclosing?c1225
narrowth?c1225
holdc1330
banda1400
festinance1426
duressc1430
enclosingc1440
closeness1530
durancea1535
closure1592
reclusedness1613
confinement1646
immurement1736
immuration1895
hack1899
prisonment1900
lockdown1973
c1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 13 She wyl..put me in duresse as þouȝ I were a faytour.
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. (Prose add. Harl.) cxcvi. 353 Kynge Richarde vnder dures of prison in the Toure of London.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vii. f. 24/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I He was sodenly apprehended..and kept in duresse by reason that hée was suspected to be of no sound religion.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 188 He kept the whole Synod in duresse to have their votes for the election of his sonne to be his successor.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 376 Persons in prisons, workhouses, asylums, hospitals, or under any form of duress.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lvi. 222 Some of the missionaries had been four years in duresse.
b. Harshness or strictness of confinement (cf. senses 1, 2).
ΚΠ
1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 249 What, then, is the degree of duresse which is to constitute imprisonment?
4.
a. Constraint, compulsion; spec. in Law, Constraint illegally exercised to force a person to perform some act.Such compulsion may be by actual imprisonment, by threat of imprisonment or of loss of life or limb, or by physical violence. A deed or contract made under duress is voidable on a plea of duress at a subsequent trial.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun]
needeOE
distressc1384
force1387
stressc1390
artingc1400
coactionc1400
constrainauncec1400
compulsion1462
enforcement1477
coercion1495
forcement1524
enforcing1531
strain1532
constraint1533
coercement1592
constrainment1593
duress1596
compulse1616
obligement1641
cogency1702
coercive control1827
steamrolling1879
compression1880
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. xii. sig. L7v If he shall through pride your doome vndo, Do you by duresse him compell thereto, And in this prison put him here. View more context for this quotation
1601–2 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 3 If an infant make..a lease by dures, if the lessee enter, the infant may haue an assise.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. ii. 78 A Marriage, Bond, or deed made by Duresse or Menace, are good in Law, and not meerly void, but voidable only upon a Plea and Tryall.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 131 The constraint a man is under in these circumstances is called in law duress, from the Latin durities, of which there are two sorts; duress of imprisonment, where a man actually loses his liberty..and duress per minas, where the hardship is only threatened and impending.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 166 The man was under duresse, and his act not voluntary but imposed upon him by force.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. x. 323 Similar principles apply to conveyances by persons under duress, that is, under pressure of illegal bodily restraint, or of danger to life or limb.
1896 W. T. Stead Pref. to Keble's Christian Year 2 I made the omissions with reluctance, under duress from the inexorable printer.
b. elliptical for plea of duress.
ΚΠ
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 10 One imprisoned till he bee content to make an obligation..being at large, yet he shall auoid it by dures of imprisonment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

duressv.

Etymology: < duress n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: duˈress.
rare.
transitive. To subject to duress, constraint, or oppression.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)]
needeOE
straita1340
pressa1393
afforcea1400
stressa1400
coactc1400
coarctc1400
strainc1400
compulse?a1475
cohert1475
oppress1523
compel1526
forcec1540
to tie to the stake1544
urge1576
adact1615
duressa1626
coerce1659
railroad1889
to twist the tail1895
steamroll1900
steamroller1912
shanghai1919
bulldozer1945
shotguna1961
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 89 If the party duressed doe make any motion or offer.
1870 Congr. Globe 5 July 5197/3 I never heard of a man who was duressed into an office to hold and exercise the functions of it during a period of four years by duress.

Derivatives

duˈressor n. Obsolete he who subjects another to duress.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > one who compels
constrainer1382
forcer1556
compellera1577
enforcer1580
duressora1626
necessitater1654
coercer1811
bulldozer1876
necessitator1904
arm-twister1915
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 90 If it had beene moved from the duressor, who had said [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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