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The practice of extorting money or other property.
extortion
1
Nor is the tithe any longer the only
exaction
demanded by the Prophet.
2
The reputed
exaction
of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him.
3
Further application to the King put an end to this
exaction
.
-
Ed.
4
Nor was this
exaction
unreasonable in view of the emergency.
5
Let us see in what terms Dr. Kuyper justifies the Boer policy of
exaction
:
6
And that we would leave the seventh year, and the
exaction
of every hand.
7
The dreaded pillage, however, was converted into a regular
exaction
.
8
So that bribery with him became a supplement to
exaction
.
9
The
exaction
of landlords hath indeed been a grievance of above twenty years' standing.
10
KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of
exaction
.
11
Berlin when he was governor of that capital during the campaign of 1807. and
exaction
.
12
He was punctilious in the
exaction
of this ceremony.
13
The country was drained of treasure by the
exaction
of enormous ransoms for captured chiefs.
14
The Indians were triumphant, but not a whit the less inclined to obstinacy and
exaction
.
15
He seemed to dread the least appearance of
exaction
.
16
The government appealed his standing and
exaction
rulings.
exaction
circuitous exaction
cruel exaction
describe the exaction
despotic exaction
farther exaction