Repression Definition

Repression Sentence Examples

• After more than a century of repression in 1905 the Edict of Toleration brought some relief.

• The repression of crime and the demand of taxation he regards alike as tyranny.

• In Jutland, too, after the repression, in 1441, of a peasant rising, something very like serfdom was introduced.

• But the memory of the benefits conferred by the English constitution remained fresh and green amidst the arid waste of repression which followed.

• This work, and especially certain notes added by the translator, gave great offence to the advocates of unlimited papal authority, and three separate memorials were presented asking for its repression.