oppression
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressio (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprimere, past participle oppressus (“to press down”); see oppress.
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oppression (countable and uncountable, plural oppressions)
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution.
- A feeling of being oppressed.
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1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
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Translations[edit]
act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed
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feeling of being oppressed
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exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
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External links[edit]
- oppression in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- oppression in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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oppression f (plural oppressions)
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