What does "oppression" mean?

Oppression: That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv.

Additional senses

  1. 2.3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. Milton.
  2. 3.Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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