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repressive, a.|rɪˈprɛsɪv|
[f. repress v.1 + -ive: cf. F. répressif, -ive, and med.L. repressīvus.]
Having the nature of, or tending to, repression.
1597G. Harvey Wks. (Grosart) III. 9 Goe to the Apothecarie, and fetch mee some represiue Antidotum to put into the bason, to keep downe the venemous vapors. 1731in Bailey (vol. II). 1749Smollett Regicide v. i, The successive pangs Of fond impatience and repressive fear. 1797Gillies Aristotle II. 233 Although our republic rejects the community of goods as repressive to exertion. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 392 Beds of solid travertin..must often..obstruct the vent, and thus increase the repressive force. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. x. 91 This repressive education is the very reverse of that which for centuries has been carried on at our public schools. 1921R. Macaulay Dangerous Ages xii. 234 His phrases drifted over Mrs Hilary's head. ‘..a deterrent force residing in the ego and preventing us from stepping outside the bounds of propriety..conflict with the progress of human society..inhibitory and repressive power of the censor.’ 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution 57 It is much harder to feel strongly about social problems such as malnutrition or unemployment, because the connection with the repressive mechanism is not so automatic. 1968A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 7 This still repressive and inhibited outlook towards sex..has brought difficulties to the serious student of human behaviour. 1970Nature 26 Sept. 1371/2 Whose tortured minds are nourished by absurd slogans such as ‘creative vandalism’ and ‘repressive tolerance’.
Hence reˈpressively adv. (Worcester 1846, citing Allen); reˈpressiveness.
1878Seeley Stein I. 408 Countries which, owing to the jealousy and repressiveness of the government, are entirely devoid of political culture. 1884C. L. Pirkis J. Wynne II. vi. 68 A repressiveness..which would have utterly frozen anyone susceptible of the process. |