oppression

oppression is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

[2] That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9.

[3] A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. Milton.

[4] Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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