• Repressive

    Full definition of repressive

    Adjective

    repressive

    1. Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
      • 1846 Allan Freer - The North British ReviewHuman 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. MightFirst, 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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