repression

[Re*pres·sion]

Repression is a kind of holding back or holding down. There's repression of feelings (willing yourself not to cry), as well as social repression (where the government limits freedom or shuts out certain groups).

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The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

Noun
the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"

Noun
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

Noun
a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects"


n.
The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

n.
That which represses; check; restraint.


Repression

Re*pres"sion (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F. r'82pression.] 1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. 2. That which represses; check; restraint.

The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

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Usage Examples

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

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Other Usage Examples

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

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