Oppressor
[ə'presə(r)]
Definition
(noun.) a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures.
Typist: Rowland--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Edited by Greg
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tyrant.
Checked by Gilbert
Examples
- Oppressor he ever was, said Locksley. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At heart and by descent an Aristocrat, an enemy of the Republic, a notorious oppressor of the People. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We are the more _obvious_ oppressors of the negro; but the unchristian prejudice of the north is an oppressor almost equally severe. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nay, would to God it could avail to set free my father, and this his benefactor, from the chains of the oppressor! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I grant that this Liberia may have subserved all sorts of purposes, by being played off, in the hands of our oppressors, against us. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We are the more _obvious_ oppressors of the negro; but the unchristian prejudice of the north is an oppressor almost equally severe. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I came out, my morals unimproved, my hatred to my oppressors encreased tenfold. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My dear cousin, you may as well understand, once for all, that we masters are divided into two classes, oppressors and oppressed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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