Both Uses of
coerce
in
Jane Eyre
- While you looked so, I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.†
p. 310.9 *coercion = the process of forcing someone to do something
- As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission — the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance.†
p. 472.2coerce = force
Definition:
force to do -- possibly by physical, moral or intellectual means