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oppression
  1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
  3. A feeling of being oppressed.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “A ruthless dictator can end up leading a region into war, terrorism, and oppression on a global scale.”
      “Their enclosed spaces offer shelter and protection without any sense of oppression.”
      “In an absurdist prose poem he wrote at the time, renewal is associated with class-based oppression.”
oppressee
oppressiveness
  1. The characteristic of being oppressive.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Good terrorists are those whose actions are justified by the oppressiveness of the system they oppose.”
      “As he points out, studies of the German colonial period often emphasize the actions of state and the oppressiveness of colonial authority.”
      “In its times of least oppressiveness it was an enormity, if he were innocent.”
oppressor
  1. Someone who oppresses another or others.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The empathy was evidently always with the freedom fighter as he took on the might of the oppressor.”
      “But he soon perceived that, if the people were oppressed, they kissed the rod of the oppressor, as they gave no signs of rising.”
      “By the time her flatmates return from work, the victim has become the oppressor.”
oppressour
  1. Obsolete form of oppressor.
oppressure
  1. (obsolete) oppression
oppressivenesses
oppressions
  1. plural of oppression
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The particular history of oppressions does differ, but their structure and consequences for the different groups is the same.”
      “If nothing is done to address the root problems behind the oppressions I can see it happening again, I can't see any hope really.”
      “The whole panoply of oppressions that scare our people and nation would be on the wane.”
oppressours
  1. plural of oppressour
oppressors
  1. plural of oppressor
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dualism is a tool of oppressors, fundamentalists and the morally righteous.”
      “The theoretical perspectives cited in the book are primarily about how oppressed groups have resisted their oppressors.”
      “By concentrating all evil in the oppressors, it absolves the victims from examining their own failings.”
oppressees
  1. plural of oppressee
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