All 19 Uses of

oppress

in

A Tale of Two Cities

"Do you suppose," Mr. Lorry went on, with a laughing twinkle in his bright eye, as it looked kindly at her, "that Doctor Manette has any theory of his own, preserved through all those years, relative to the cause of his being so oppressed; perhaps, even to the name of his oppressor?"†
Chpt 2.6 *

oppressor = one who dominates others harshly and unfairly OR one who denies equal rights to others or makes them suffer

At heart and by descent an Aristocrat, an enemy of the Republic, a notorious oppressor of the People.†
Chpt 3.10

For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination.†
Chpt 3.12

oppressors = people who deny equal rights to others or make them suffer OR people who dominate others harshly and unfairly

If he had given any utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use.†
Chpt 3.15

"Do you suppose," Mr. Lorry went on, with a laughing twinkle in his bright eye, as it looked kindly at her, "that Doctor Manette has any theory of his own, preserved through all those years, relative to the cause of his being so oppressed; perhaps, even to the name of his oppressor?"†
Chpt 2.6

It was an oppressive day, and, after dinner, Lucie proposed that the wine should be carried out under the plane-tree, and they should sit there in the air.†
Chpt 2.6

To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.†
Chpt 2.9

Like you, a voluntary exile from France; like you, driven from it by its distractions, oppressions, and miseries; like you, striving to live away from it by my own exertions, and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death.†
Chpt 2.10

From his oppressed slumber, Young Jerry in his closet was awakened after daybreak and before sunrise, by the presence of his father in the family room.†
Chpt 2.14

The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, and the mender of roads fanned himself with his blue cap: feeling it mightily close and oppressive.†
Chpt 2.15

You have no idea how such an apprehension weighs on the sufferer's mind, and how difficult—how almost impossible—it is, for him to force himself to utter a word upon the topic that oppresses him.†
Chpt 2.19

But, he had oppressed no man, he had imprisoned no man; he was so far from having harshly exacted payment of his dues, that he had relinquished them of his own will, thrown himself on a world with no favour in it, won his own private place there, and earned his own bread.†
Chpt 2.24

All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer, in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds?†
Chpt 3.3

Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people.†
Chpt 3.9

I had never before seen the sense of being oppressed, bursting forth like a fire.†
Chpt 3.10

Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.†
Chpt 3.13

Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.†
Chpt 3.15

Definitions:

(1) (oppress as in: oppressive government)
to dominate harshly and unfairly; or to make suffer
The 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
(2) (oppress as in: oppressive heat)
to make uncomfortable (weigh heavily on the senses or spirit)