repressive
Adjective
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Adjective
repressive
- Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
- 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
- Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
- 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
- French: répressif
- German: repressiv
- Italian: repressivo
- Russian: репресси́вный
- Spanish: represivo
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