Duressor
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who subjects another to duress.
"if you will deliver me that piece of plate , now the duress is discharged ; and yet if it had been moved from the duressor , who had said at the first you shall take this peece of Plate , and make me a bond[…]"
Example
More examples"if you will deliver me that piece of plate , now the duress is discharged ; and yet if it had been moved from the duressor , who had said at the first you shall take this peece of Plate , and make me a bond[…]"
Etymology
From duress + -or.
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