efforce
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See also: efforcé
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French efforcer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
efforce (third-person singular simple present efforces, present participle efforcing, simple past and past participle efforced)
- (obsolete, reflexive) To force oneself.
- (obsolete, transitive) To force, force open; to acquire by force.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- huge great yron chests and coffers strong, / All bard with double bends, that none could weene / Them to efforce by violence or wrong […]
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
efforce
- inflection of efforcer: