Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EF-FORCE'
EF-FORCE', v.t. [Fr. efforcer, from force.]
- To force; to break through by violence. Spenser.
- To force; to ravish. Spenser.
- To strain; to exert with effort. Spenser. [This word is now rarely used; perhaps never, except in poetry. We now use force.]
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