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

Example sentences :

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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