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duressor

duressor noun: someone who subjects another to duress.

Noun

duressor (plural duressors)

  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[…]1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law

Forms of duressor

pluralduressors

Origin of duressor

From duress + -or.

Questions about duressor

What does duressor mean?
Duressor means someone who subjects another to duress.
What part of speech is duressor?
Duressor is a noun.
What is the plural of duressor?
The plural of duressor is duressors.

Words near duressor in the dictionary

  1. duress passwords
  2. duresse
  3. duressed
  4. duresses
  5. duressing
  6. duressor
  7. duressors
  8. Duret hemorrhage
  9. dureth
  10. Durex
  11. Durexes

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