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Webster 1913 Edition
Oppressor
Op-press′or
,Noun.
[L.]
One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
The orphan pines while the
oppressor
feeds. Shakespeare
To relieve the oppressed and to punish the
oppressor
. Swift.
Webster 1828 Edition
Oppressor
OPPRESS'OR
,Noun.
Power when employed to relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor, becomes a great blessing.
Definition 2024
oppressor
oppressor
English
Alternative forms
- oppressour (obsolete)
Noun
oppressor (plural oppressors)
- Someone who oppresses another or others.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- And in respect of the great necessity there is, my darling, for more employments being within the reach of Woman than our civilisation has as yet assigned to her, don’t fly at the unfortunate men, even those men who are at first sight in your way, as if they were the natural oppressors of your sex […]
- 2006, Lisa V. Blitz, Mary Pender Greene, Racism and Racial Identity
- All members of society are hurt by the dynamic of oppressor versus oppressed (McIntosh, 1988).
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
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