forcement

See also: forcément

English

Etymology

force +‎ -ment

Noun

forcement

1. (obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.
   • 1607, John Webster and Thomas Dekker, Sir Thomas Wyat

     It was imposed upon us by constraint; and will you count such forcement treachery?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forcement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• coferment

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French

Noun

forcement m (plural forcements)

1. fixing number; cooking the books

Further reading

• “forcement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.