1431 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1431 §32. m. 4 For wele of all þis lond, and repressyng of all siche orrible tresons.

a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 123 (MED) It shalbe nescessarie þat the kynge haue alway some ffloute apon the see, ffor the repressynge off rovers.

1521 Earl of Surrey in J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen Cal. Carew MSS. (1867) I. 20 For the repressing of whose malice I assay all the friends I can.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F7^v Good lawes there are, both for the repressing of these, and al other enormities whatsoeuer.

c1630 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 273 For the..repressing and discountenancing of insolency.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. xix. 203 For repressing of theft, it was unreasonable that it should not be quarrellable before every Judge, for thereby many would be deterred from pursuits against landed men.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 517 The repressing of tyranny is reckoned a duty incumbent on good subjects.

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xviii. 306 The repressing of so many..in the fight of so great a concourse of people.

1814 J. Philippart Mem. & Campaigns Charles John 172 The annexed edict for the repressing of luxury was issued on the 10th of July.

1884 Athenæum 16 Feb. 210/2 The record of a despot of genius..meeting savage uprising by equally savage repressing.

1916 B. M. Hinkle tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. Unconscious i. iii. 73 The projection consists in the repressing of the conflict into the unconscious and the setting forth of the repressed contents into seeming objectivity.

1955 C. Kirkpatrick Family as Process & Inst. xiii. 295 Symbols of love include such things as..fidelity, sympathy, and repressing of boredom.

1998 D. Lupton in S. Nettleton & J. Watson Body in Everyday Life i. v. 92 They..were quite convinced that the repressing of the emotions often led to ill-health.

1848 Let. Jan. in Debow's Rev. Mar. 291 We can make our bales in good shipping size on the plantation, and thus entirely avoid the expense of re-pressing.

1919 Vinegar Hand Bk. (Hydraulic Press Manuf. Co.) 20 Repressing of pomace is a profitable practice followed by many successful vinegar manufacturers.

1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World v. 142 Shaping methods for fireclay bricks include extrusion and wire-cutting (often followed by re-pressing).

1993 J. R. Davis Aluminum & Aluminum Alloys 11 By re-pressing, with or without resintering, parts of 90% theoretical density or more can be produced.

1927 Phonograph Monthly Rev. June 372/1 Once a record is dropped by the Columbia Company, it is absolutely impossible to get a re-pressing.

1960 ‘I. T. Ross’ Murder out of School iv. 38 Old records..collectors' items now, that had somehow never come out as well in the long-playing repressings the companies had issued.

1999 W. Shaman et al. More EJS p. xxxvi VA: HMV: 10-inch white and gold label ‘Archive Series’, issued October 1951; shellac discs, a mixture of repressings and electrical transfers.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. v. 215 In the beginning of these phlegmonous tumors..we may rather vse repressing medicines.

a1627 J. Beaumont Bosworth-field (1629) 146 Vpon the Top, commanding Prudence shines, Repressing Temp'rance to the foote declines.

1726 E. Barry Treat. Consumption of Lungs ii. 104 The repressing Force of the circulating Fluid in these Vessels, is greater than the pressing Force of the Air.

1775 G. Stuart tr. J. L. de Lolme Constit. Eng. ii. viii. 254 The political calamity..and the care of repressing Power.

1804 C. H. Wilkinson Elements Galvanism I. i. 10 He employed successively a repressing arc and a conducting arc.

1854 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 144 210 The repressing power that appears in the chloride of sodium does not extend to two other substances, alcohol and sugar.

1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria vii. 161 What becomes conscious as an obsession and obsessive affect and substitutes the pathogenic memory in the conscious life, are compromise formations between the repressed and the repressing ideas.

1951 Jrnl. Personality 19 472 We hypothesized that intellectualizing patients..would show higher accuracy for threatening material than the repressing type of patient.

1992 A. Green in D. A. Teutsch Imagining Jewish Future i. 18 In prayer the hidden child within us breaks through the repressing bonds of adult conscious control.

1830 A. M. Porter Barony III. vi. 315 To leave unsaid what she ought to have said; to appear repressingly cold.

1930 E. H. Young Miss Mole x. 72 He paused to look a little inquisitively, but more repressingly, at the maker of this rather surprising speech.

2000 Arts Educ. Policy Rev. (Nexis) July 3 The shallowness of this culture has been repressingly brought on and perpetuated by those who have the power.