[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONSTRAIN; application of constraint.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 517. Ȝoven frely wiþouten exaccioun or constreynynge.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 91. Constreynynge, coaccio.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. 74. The Chirch hath not the power of compelling, nor oughte to require it (I speake of ciuile constrayning).
1644. Milton, Judgm. Bucer (1851), 294. A bondage not of Gods constraining.
