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单词 oppressure
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oppressuren.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: oppress v., -ure suffix1.
Etymology: < oppress v. + -ure suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin oppressura harassment (1332 in a British source), Italian oppressura (1340), Middle French oppresseure (1429). Compare slightly later pressure n.1
Obsolete.
= oppression n.; the action of oppressing; distress, trouble.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > condition of being oppressed > [noun] > action of oppressing
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c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 101 (MED) Heil þorwh whom a-wey is don Of monkynde oppressure [L. pressura].
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 3407 This you say sertain..hou Gaffray hym put to shameuous oppressure.
c1500 (a1450) De Arte Lacrimandi (Harl.) in Anglia (1909) 32 291 (MED) Than prayed I hym as his hand maide To saue me fro the oppressure Of feendys blake.
c1610 B. Jonson Let. in T. Matthew Coll. Lett. (1659) 328 You, that counsell me to a silence in these oppressures.
a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 457 He complains..of the oppressures of the Commons, of withholding the Wages of poor Labourers.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 222 The Oppressures that in Three and twenty years..exercis'd the Defence and Patience of one man, made him stand the stronger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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