| 单词 | suppressive person |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuppressive person 2. In Scientology: designating a person who impedes, resists, or seeks to undermine the aims, beliefs, or practices of the Scientology movement; frequently in suppressive person (abbreviated SP). Also occasionally of behaviour, an action, etc. ΚΠ 1965 L. R. Hubbard Scientol. Abridged Dict. 26 A person ‘roller coasters’, i.e., gets better, then worse, etc., only when connected to a Suppressive Person or Group. 1975 R. Wallis Sectarianism vi. 97 Handling was never clearly defined, but appeared to mean reforming the suppressive individual concerned. 1987 H. Whitehead Renunciation & Reformulation vii. 222 Anyone within Scientology who found himself declared suppressive would consider his situation against the backdrop of these..allegations. 1995 Daily Tel. 10 Mar. 8/7 Miss Wilson agreed that the sect regarded people who did or said anything against the Church as ‘suppressive persons’ who had committed ‘suppressive acts’. 2011 New Yorker 21 Feb. 98/3 In August, 2006, a notice was posted at the Celebrity Centre declaring Rennard's parents Suppressive Persons. < as lemmas |
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