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oppressions

oppressions is the plural of oppression.

Meaning of oppression

Noun

oppression (countable and uncountable, plural oppressions)

  1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
    • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)
  2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
    • Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.
  3. A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.
    • Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.

Questions about oppressions

What is oppressions the plural of?
Oppressions is the plural of oppression.

Words near oppressions in the dictionary

  1. Oppression Olympics
  2. oppressional
  3. oppressionism
  4. oppressionist
  5. oppressionists
  6. oppressions
  7. oppressive
  8. oppressively
  9. oppressiveness
  10. oppressivenesses
  11. oppressor

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