adv. [f. prec. + -LY.] In a coercive manner, by way of coercion.
1661. Discip. & Cerem. Ch. Eng., II. 16. The exercise of civil Government, coercively by Mulcts, or corporal Penalties.
1690. Penn, Rise & Progr. Quakers (1834), 58. The national churches, that have coercively pressed conformity to their respective creeds.
1869. Contemp. Rev., XII. 166. This is … the one essential claim which must be indisputably and coercively made good.
