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Definition duress

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

Noun

duress (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
  2. Constraint by threat.
  3. (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

Verb

duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)

  1. To put under duress; to pressure.

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SERS 4
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