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oppression |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Oppression \Op*pres"sion\, n. [F., fr L. oppressio.] 1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. ``The multitude of oppressions.'' --Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense --Milton. 4. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: oppression n 1: the act of subjugating by cruelty [syn: {subjugation}] 2: kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "the tyrant's oppression of the people" 3: a feeling of being oppressed [syn: {oppressiveness}]
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