extorsive

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English

Etymology

See extort.

Adjective

extorsive (comparative more extorsive, superlative most extorsive)

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

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