Synonyms for exaction:
noun demand
Examples of uses:
If he should break his day, what should I gain by the exaction of the forfeiture?
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By statute and order the Central Authority had authorised compulsory detention for four hours and the exaction of a task of work.
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Title: English Poor Law Policy, author: Sidney Webb, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43472/43472-h/43472-h.htm
The violent altercation witnessed by Clameran's new valet, Joseph Dubois, had been caused by the exaction of this promise.
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Title: File No. 113, author: Emile Gaboriau, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3803/3803-h/3803-h.htm
But the stern customs of his people had made too severe an exaction of the feeble old man.
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Title: The Last of the Mohicans, author: James Fenimore Cooper, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/940/940-h/940-h.htm
How can he be fed, clothed, and warmed without the State making its existence felt by the exaction of a tithe?
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Title: The Surprises of Life, author: Georges Clemenceau, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40618/40618-h/40618-h.htm
The allies no sooner obtained possession of central Europe than they outdid its recent master in every species of exaction.
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Title: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, author: William Milligan Sloane, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34838/34838-h/34838-h.htm
No doubt she had been harassed by Allen's exaction of response to his ardent affection, and wearied of his monopoly of her.
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Title: Magnum Bonum, author: Charlotte M. Yonge, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5080/5080-h/5080-h.htm
To this exaction, involving not less than $132,000 per year additional freight rates, the lumbermen of Georgia objected.
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Title: Railroads: Rates and Regulations, author: William Z. Ripley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47831/47831-h/47831-h.htm
You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain; but till down he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.
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Title: The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, author: A. T. Mahan, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15749/15749-h/15749-h.htm
Fleetwood knew it, and he scorned to solicit them; an exaction of their idle vows would be merely the humiliation of himself.
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Title: The Amazing Marriage, Complete, author: George Meredith, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4488/4488-h/4488-h.htm
