repressive

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See also: répressive

English

Etymology

repress +‎ -ive

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Adjective

repressive (comparative more repressive, superlative most repressive)

  1. 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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Adjective

repressive

  1. inflection of repressiv:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

repressive

  1. feminine plural of repressivo
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