coup de force
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On 26 August 1718, in a remarkable coup de force, Orléans crushed the political audacity and embryonic constitutional pretensions of the Parlement."
- "The undecidable issue between these different institutions and procedures had in the end to be determined at the boundary of all of them, through coups de force."
- "It can, of course, always be argued that the acceptance of democracy by the Communists and by the Catholic Church was a matter of power relations: the church had everything to lose from a struggle for power, and the strategic balance between the Soviet Union and NATO barred the French and Italian Communist Parties from any possibility of a coup de force."
- "Then, in a remarkable coup de force, he convinced Lilienthal to set up a naval reactors branch at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)—and had himself appointed its head."
- "On 9 March 1945, […] the Japanese launched a coup de force, overthrowing eighty years of French rule in a matter of days."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French