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Synonyms for oppressor
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-pres |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈprɛs |
Définition of oppressor
Origin :- c.1400, from Old French opresseor, from Latin oppressor, from opprimere (see oppress (v.)).
- noun tyrant
- With tears rolling down her cheeks the victim points to her oppressor.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- "And yet we used to prevail against the oppressor," he concluded, proudly.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- "It is the sacred right of the citizen to oppress the oppressor," chimed Jude.
- Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
- You, when smitten on the right cheek, turned unto the oppressor the left.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- I reck not what ye say, so I win your lady sister from her oppressor.'
- Extract from : « King Arthur's Knights » by Henry Gilbert
- (p. 252) Decatur crowded on all sail, and set off in pursuit of the oppressor.
- Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
- Where is now the oppressor's chariot, where your tyrant's purple robe?
- Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli
- The crushed worm may yet turn under the heel of the oppressor.
- Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
- Still not a child among us was too young to feel in his own flesh the lash of the oppressor.
- Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
- To them he was a traitor who had sold himself to the Yankee oppressor.
- Extract from : « A History of the United States » by Cecil Chesterton
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