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Definition of Oppresses
1. oppress [v] - See also: oppress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppresses
Literary usage of Oppresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... all that anguish which we may feel from any evil that actually oppresses us,
to which I may likewise add those little cracklings of mirth and folly that ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"The character of Theodosius imposed on his minister the task of hypocrisy, which
disguised, and sometimes restrained, nc oppresses .... t • i • •> ii • the ..."
3. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge, Edwin Doak Mead (1905)
"WAR IS INHUMAN, AS IT Oppresses THE POOR To oppress the poor is everywhere in
the Scriptures considered as a great sin : " For the oppression of the poor, ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Crawford Howell Toy (1899)
"and no bread, that is, a poor man who oppresses etc. is etc. But in Pr. (or in OT.)
a poor man is not conceived of as an oppressor of the poor, ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"... waits for their arrival,—a rapidity in execution, that like lightning oppresses
his foes while they are merged in 'luxury or .slumbering in indolence; ..."
6. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises , and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1838)
"2. breathes unto the Lord for thy deliverance ; and in order that thou mayest be
delivered from that which so oppresses thee in spirit, or stands in thy way ..."
7. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker, Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay (1831)
"... for the least trouble in the performance oppresses it, the slightest cross
accident withers it up, or sensual pleasures and engagements blow it quite ..."
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