Oppression
[ə'preʃ(ə)n] or [ə'prɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of subjugating by cruelty; 'the tyrant's oppression of the people'.
(noun.) a feeling of being oppressed.
(noun.) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: 'after years of oppression they finally revolted'.
Typist: Natalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
(n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
(n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
(n.) Ravishment; rape.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hardship, misery, suffering, calamity.[2]. Tyranny, severity, cruelty, injustice, persecution.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cruelty, tyranny, severity, injustice, hardship
ANT:Kindness, mercy, clemency, leniency, justice,[See TYRANNY]
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Examples
- When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was an intolerable oppression to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The oppression of Celia, Tantripp, and Sir James was shaken off, and she walked straight to the library. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She went to the window, and threw it open, to dispel the oppression which hung around her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The common rule requires submission; and it is only in cases of grievous tyranny and oppression, that the exception can take place. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Men have oftener suffered from, the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My late fever seemed to have carried away all the oppression on my chest, except what was the mere effect of debility. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Darwin was moved by intense indignation at the slavery on the east coast and the cruel oppression of the laborer on the west coast. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the evening, Lord Worcester found me seriously ill, with an oppression on my chest, to which I am become rather subject. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When he was gone, Dorothea's tears gushed forth, and relieved her stifling oppression. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I used to feel it like a baleful air or sigh, penetrate deep, and make motion pause at my heart, or proceed only under unspeakable oppression. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Roman science was stillborn, into a suffocating atmosphere of vile wealth and military oppression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But all the oppressions evidently work for our good. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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