Oppression vs. Persecute — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Oppression and Persecute
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Oppression
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. Oppression may be overt or covert, depending on how it is practiced.
Persecute
To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
Oppression
The action of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power
A system of oppression.
Persecute
To annoy persistently; bother
Persecuted the babysitter with foolish questions.
Oppression
The state of being oppressed
Caught in the oppression of poverty.
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Persecute
To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
He who persecutes one will persecute all.
Oppression
A feeling of being weighed down in mind or body
"Every time I entered my house, an oppression settled on me so heavy that I had to stand for minutes at a time in the doorway, gathering what strength I could find" (Erin McGraw). "One has ... to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression" (J.R.R. Tolkien).
Persecute
To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
Oppression
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
Persecute
To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.
Oppression
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.
Persecute
To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Oppression
A feeling of being oppressed.
Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
Persecute
To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
Oppression
The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
Persecute
Cause to suffer;
Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union
Oppression
That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
Oppression
A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
There gentle SleepFirst found me, and with soft oppression seizedMy drowsed sense.
Oppression
Ravishment; rape.
Oppression
The act of subjugating by cruelty;
The tyrant's oppression of the people
Oppression
The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
After years of oppression they finally revolted
Oppression
A feeling of being oppressed
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