oppression

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

   “Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.”

3. isim 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.”