单词 | repressed |
释义 | repressedadj.n. 1. That is or has been repressed (in various senses); restrained; oppressed; held back.With quot. 1963 cf. repress v.1 5b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] > restrained bridled1567 retent1568 restrained1578 controlled1581 snubbed1583 retained1592 retentive1599 curbed1600 repressed1606 stifleda1643 suspense1667 light1740 reined-in1740 checked1793 reined-up1835 reticent1877 snaffled1877 directed1891 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster sig. C3v A repressed fame mountes like Camomyll, the more trod down, the more it growes. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 439 When the Besiegers had stopped it up behind also, first throwing fire therein, the repressed force thereof at length burst out. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 18 Represt ambition struggles round her shore. 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. v. ii. 23 The sensitive alarms of repressed consciousness. 1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. iii. 105 There was none of the flutter of vanity in her manner, nor any of the repressed satisfaction of pride. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xxii. 221 ‘Yes—you are quite right,’ said the repressed young painter. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love i. 12 Gudrun's cheek was flushed with repressed emotion. 1963 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 50 898 This may be due to some derepression of normally repressed genes. 2001 C. Coker Humane Warfare iv. 86 In their different systems there was no role for women except as servants of the dialectic or as a repressed gender. 2. Originally Psychoanalysis. Of a thought or desire: kept suppressed and unconscious in a person's mind; (of a person, attitude, etc.) characterized by the repression of thoughts or desires, especially sexual ones. Cf. repress v.1 2c. Also as n. (with the): that which has been repressed. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > sublimation of libido > [adjective] > kept out of conscious mind repressed1901 scotomized1927 1901 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Sci. 47 370 1901 47 370 Considering dreams of one class as the concealed fulfilment of repressed desires, the author [sc. Freud] points out that..we may..regard them as the protectors of sleep. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. i. iii. 34 It [sc. the unconscious] also contains the repressed. 1944 Mind 53 847 The repressed guilt-laden hatred, originally felt towards the mother for checking a certain impulse, may be extended or diverted to that impulse itself. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 41 Was it some boyish ebullition in this repressed man? 2000 Times 17 Nov. ii. 8/4 So, does it count as infidelity if you smooch with a stranger in your sleep? Is it adultery or repressed wishful thinking? Derivatives reˈpressedly adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adverb] > restrainedly restrainedly?1569 repressedly1848 1848 J. Ashworth tr. St. John Chrysostom Homilies on Second Epist. of Paul to Corinthians iv. 54 Behold him again, speaking repressedly. 1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune Daily Mag. 18 Nov. 21/2 He caught the girl's tones, repressedly strident, and the man's answering tones. 1993 B. Kruger Remote Control (1994) 190 Films about nuns in a convent or young girls discovering their repressedly churning libidos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1606 |
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