Both Uses
repress
in
Wuthering Heights
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- 'I know you didn't like him,' she answered, repressing a little the intensity of her delight.†
p. 68.6 *
- He retained a great deal of the reserve for which his boyhood was remarkable; and that served to repress all startling demonstrations of feeling.†
p. 72.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(repress as in: she repressed a laugh) to hold something back (not allow it to be expressed)
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(2)
(repress as in: repressed the rebellion) to forcefully subdue or prevent actions by others
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(3)
(repress as in: repressed the memory) suppress from conscious awareness a memory, thought, feeling or desire
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)