| 释义 |
† oˈppressure Obs.
[f. oppress v. + -ure: cf. It. oppressura.]
The action of oppressing; oppression; distress, trouble.
c1600–8B. Jonson in Four C. Eng. Lett. (Camden) 64 You that counsel me to a silence in these oppressures. 1658Cleveland Rustick Rampant Wks. (1687) 457 He complains..of the oppressures of the Commons, of withholding the Wages of poor Labourers. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. 222 The Oppressures that in Three and twenty years..exercis'd the Defence and Patience of one man, made him stand the stronger. |