extorsive

English

Etymology

See extort.

Adjective

extorsive (comparative more extorsive, superlative most extorsive)

Serving or tending to extort.
- 1750, Joseph Shaw, Parish Law:
  the Words corrupte & extorsive being in the Indictment

Related terms

extorsively

References

“extorsive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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