oppression

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈpɹɛʃən/

Noun

oppression

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 […]

2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

   The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution.

3. A feeling of being oppressed.

   Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.

Related terms

• oppress

Translations

• French: oppression
• German: Unterdrückung
• Italian: oppressione
• Portuguese: opressão
• Russian: гнёт
• Spanish: opresión

Translations

• French: oppression
• German: Unterdrückung
• Russian: гнёт

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