- þvingan
- f. oppression, hardship (til þvingunar ok ófrelsis).* * *f. a weighing down, hardship, Magn. 502; as opp. to skemtan, Stj. 2; þótti þat þ. at halda svá margar hátíðir, 49; til þvingunar ok ófrelsis, Bs. i. 720; ganga undir nýjar þvinganir, N. G. L. iii. 249.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.