repressive
See also: répressive
English
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Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Adjective
[edit]repressive (comparative more repressive, superlative most repressive)
- Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
- 1846, Allan Freer, The North British Review:
- Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- 1989, Louis Henkin, Right V. Might:
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
- 2023 November 30, Colin McCormick, Allison Gemmill, “Hunger Games Panem Map Guide: Every Location Explained”, in Screen Rant[1], archived from the original on 8 March 2025:
- District 7 notably detonated landmines and killed a large group of Peacekeepers while the 75th Hunger Games were going on, signaling to the Capitol the district was joining others in a rebellion against its repressive rule.
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[edit]serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
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