All 7 Uses of
oppress
in
Mansfield Park
- Sir Thomas ... came forward with a kindness which astonished and penetrated her, calling her his dear Fanny, kissing her affectionately, and observing with decided pleasure how much she was grown! Fanny knew not how to feel, nor where to look. She was quite oppressed.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)oppressed = made uncomfortable
- ...his spirits often oppress me;
Chpt 35 (definition 1) *oppress = make uncomfortable
- Still, however, Fanny was oppressed and wearied; he saw it in her looks, it could not be talked away; and attempting it no more, he led her directly, with the kind authority of a privileged guardian, into the house.
Chpt 35 (definition 1)oppressed = uncomfortable
- Quite unlike his usual self, he scarcely said anything. He was evidently oppressed, and Fanny must grieve for him, though hoping she might never see him again till he were the husband of some other woman.
Chpt 36 (definition 1)oppressed = uncomfortably burdened
- To be the friend of the poor and the oppressed!
Chpt 41 (definition 2) *oppressed = people treated harshly and unfairly
- She sat in a blaze of oppressive heat, in a cloud of moving dust, and her eyes could only wander from the walls, marked by her father's head, to the table cut and notched by her brothers, where stood the tea-board never thoroughly cleaned, the cups and saucers wiped in streaks, the milk a mixture of motes floating in thin blue, and the bread and butter growing every minute more greasy than even Rebecca's hands had first produced it.
Chpt 46 (definition 1)oppressive = uncomfortable
- She looked at him, but he was leaning back, sunk in a deeper gloom than ever, and with eyes closed, as if the view of cheerfulness oppressed him, and the lovely scenes of home must be shut out.
Chpt 46 (definition 1)oppressed = weighed heavily on the senses or spirit
Definitions:
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(1) (oppress as in: oppressive heat) to make uncomfortable (weigh heavily on the senses or spirit)
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(2) (oppress as in: oppressive government) to dominate harshly and unfairly; or to make sufferThe meaning of oppress depends upon its context. For example:
- "The authorities oppress political activists," or "The new nation oppressed Native Americans." -- to dominate harshly and unfairly
- "She is oppressed by excessive debt." - made to suffer