[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That enforces or presses upon.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., clxiv. The thin-film’d Bladder breakes Prest with the burthen of enforceing Ayre.
1662. H. Stubbe, Ind. Nectar, ii. 12. A drink invented by an enforcing necessity.
Hence Enforcingly adv., in a forcible manner; earnestly, impressively.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xliv. 5. Onlesse it bee put enforcingly for assurance sake.
1754. Richardson, Grandison (1781), VI. 9. I am wished to write more enforcingly to you.
