Definition of "incoercible" [in•co•er•ci•ble]

• Difficult or impossible to coerce or control forcibly: incoercible rebel leaders. (adjective)

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• "Pacific Ocean shall pour into the Atlantic; when man will become more precious than fine gold, and when his ambition will be to subdue the elements, not to subjugate his fellow-creatures, to make fire, water, earth and air obey his bidding, but to leave the poor ethereal mind as the sole thing in Nature free and incoercible."
• "How, then, is it possible to affirm the reality of an invisible, impalpable, incoercible being, ever changing, ever vanishing, impenetrable to thought alone, to which it exhibits only its disguises?"
• "Liberty of thought and action, and incoercible desire to be free from governmental, traditional, ultra-ecclesiastical, or Shint [= o] influence -- in a word, protestantism in its pure sense, is characteristic of the great sect founded by"