coercion vs violence

coercion

noun
  • Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will. 

  • A specific instance of coercing. 

  • Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. 

  • Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. 

  • The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context. 

violence

noun
  • Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering. 

  • Extreme force. 

  • Injustice, wrong. 

  • Widespread fighting. 

verb
  • To subject to violence. 

How often have the words coercion and violence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )