誅ちゅう求きゅう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

oppressive exaction; harsh levying

Formal or literary term for harshly demanding payment, especially taxes. Often appears in the compound 苛斂誅求 (かれんちゅうきゅう).

See also: 苛斂誅求

• 苛か斂れん誅ちゅう求きゅうに苦くるしむ民たみの声こえが史し料りょうに残のこっている。

  Voices of people suffering from oppressive taxation remain in historical records.

• 誅ちゅう求きゅうは古ふるい文ぶん章しょうで見みられる表ひょう現げんで、現げん代だいではほとんど使つかわれない。

  誅求 is an expression found in old texts and is rarely used today.