constraindre
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Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French constraindre, constreindre, contraindre, from Latin constringo, constringere.
Verb[edit]
constraindre
- to constrain (physically)
- 1586, Henri IV of France, Lettres Missives:
- Dieu m'y a tel-icy, constraindre, par force de prince, se quelques uns qui vous parlent, que la soumectre au joug de leur merite!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Descendants[edit]
- English: constrain
- French: contraindre