Antonyms for oppression
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-presh-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈprɛʃ ən |
Definition of oppression
Origin :- mid-14c., "cruel or unjust use of power or authority," from Old French opression (12c.), from Latin oppressionem (nominative oppressio) "a pressing down; violence, oppression," noun of action from past participle stem of opprimere (see oppress). Meaning "action of weighing on someone's mind or spirits" is from late 14c.
- noun misery, hardship
- His self-mastery is the gift of his creator, and oppression, only, can take it away.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- The demon of oppression had hidden her head ashamed, and fled to her den!
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- Some sense of oppression, of impending evil, hung over them both.
- Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
- The world was full of oppression, and envy, and drunkenness, and vain pleasures.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- The fact that Godolphin was slain, it must be confessed, was not in itself the source of his oppression.
- Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
- Everywhere the same story of English selfishness and oppression.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- The operation of shaving and dressing in solitude produced an oppression of loneliness.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
- Instead of oppression, we shall have justice, tempered with mercy.
- Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Looked we or no that tyranny should turn Her engines of oppression to their use?
- Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
- The iron of oppression had entered into the soul of the Cuban.
- Extract from : « A Short History of Spain » by Mary Platt Parmele
Synonyms for oppression
- abuse
- abusiveness
- autocracy
- brutality
- calamity
- coercion
- compulsion
- conquering
- control
- cruelty
- despotism
- dictatorship
- domination
- fascism
- force
- forcibleness
- hardness
- harshness
- injury
- injustice
- iron hand
- maltreatment
- martial law
- overthrowing
- persecution
- severity
- subduing
- subjection
- suffering
- torment
- tyrrany
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