nonextortion

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ extortion.

Noun

nonextortion (uncountable)

  1. Lack of extortion.
    • 1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement, page 398:
      Posner's second argument against enforcing surrogacy contracts invokes a principle of nonextortion, which might be entailed by basic liberty (depending on what nonextortion is taken to mean).
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