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t which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9.

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

panied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

f restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison.

o repress; to curb. So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. Burke.

or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. Jer. ix. 24. The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Ezek. xxii. 29.

money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.] Spenser.

ith frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

g, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity. This grated harder upon the hearts of men. South.

Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

t I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government. E. Everett.

House, of bondage, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression. -- Land o' cakes, Scotland. -- Land of Nod, sleep. -- Land of promise, in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation. -- Land of steady habits, a nickname someti…

In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. Spenser.

subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

nciples or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.