Wronging and Oppression
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Wrong.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- The act of subjugating by cruelty.
- usage: "the tyrant's oppression of the people"
- synonyms: subjugation
- (n.) ()
- A feeling of being oppressed.
- synonyms: oppressiveness
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary