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Definition of Oppressors
1. oppressor [n] - See also: oppressor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppressors
Literary usage of Oppressors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testament by John Brown (1818)
"... Moab. they shall take them captives, whose cap- in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy lives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. ..."
2. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. 123 Mine
eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. ..."
3. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"CLERICAL oppressors [September 4, 1835] JUST God! and these are they Who minister
at thine altar, God of Right! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"princes that have been cruel, unjust, prejudiced, and oppressors of their subjects,
hare soon fallen, they and their estates, into danger or total ruin. ..."
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