1) Aggrievance 2) Compulsion 3) Heavy hand 4) Maltreatment 5) Oppressiveness 6) Pall 7) Persecution 8) Repression 9) Totalitarianism 10) Tyranny
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1) Authoritarianism 2) Autocracy 3) Cruelty 4) Despotism 5) Dictatorship 6) Domination 7) French word used in English 8) Persecution 9) Subjugation 10) Suppression 11) The state of being oppressed 12) Totalitarianism 13) Tyranny
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- the act of subjugating by cruelty
- kept down by unjust use of force or authority
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Oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. It can also be defined as an act or instance of oppressing, the state of being oppressed, and the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions or people, and anxiety. ==Social oppression== Social oppression is th...
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The systematic exploitation of one societal group by another for its own benefit. The phenomenon involves institutional control, ideological domination, and the imposition of the dominant groups culture on the oppressed.
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• (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. • (n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. • (n.) Ravishment; rape. • (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.Oppression...
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(from the article `crime`) ...by a comprehensive series of provisions. The reforms, which were supplemented by detailed codes of practice, allowed a confession to be admitted ...
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Op·pres'sion noun [ French, from Latin
oppressio .]
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...
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n] - kept down by unjust use of force or authority 2. [n] - a feeling of being oppressed 3. [n] - the act of subjugating by cruelty
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discrimination at the group or societal level. See Discrimination
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Oppression refers to systemic and institutional abuse of power by a dominant or privileged group at the expense of targeted, less privileged groups.
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Oppression is both the unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power and the effects of domination so attained. Oppression results from:
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The state of being subject to unjust treatment or control.
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A term used to describe systems, relations, or behaviors which disadvantage groups or individuals through formal institutions or informal attitudes and behaviors. Oppression fuses institutional and systemic discrimination, personal bias, bigotry, and social prejudice in a complex web of relationships and structures.
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oppressiveness noun a feeling of being oppressed
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The systemic and pervasive nature of social inequality woven throughout social institutions as well as embedded within individual consciousness. Oppression fuses institutional and systemic discrimination, personal bias, bigotry, and social prejudice in a complex web of relationships and structures that saturate most aspects of life in our society.
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the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. · an act or instance of oppressing. · the state of being oppressed. · the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.
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Results from the use of institutional power and privilege where one person or group benefits at the expense of another. Oppression is the use of power and the effects of domination.
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