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What does repression mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
  2. The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
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Historically, proscription has been a tool of political repression, not law enforcement.
For example, the agency instituting repression must be derived from the ego, the conscious part of the mind.
Several speakers drew attention to other victims of police killings and repression.
Such an autocratic style of leading a family leads to repression and suppression giving rise to feelings of discontentment and unhappiness.
But the political repression in his native Hungary quashed his writing ambitions.
It has experienced decades of repression by a kleptocratic military, communal violence and the degradation of a once vibrant economy.

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