repressive
See also: répressive
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- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
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repressive (comparative more repressive, superlative most repressive)
- Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
- 1846, Allan Freer, The North British Review:
- Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- 1989, Louis Henkin, Right V. Might:
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
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serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
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repressive
- inflection of repressiv:
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repressive