What does Oppressor mean?

Definitions for Oppressor
op·pres·sor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. oppressornoun

    a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

Wiktionary

  1. oppressornoun

    Someone who oppresses another or others.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Oppressornoun

    One who harrasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity.

    Etymology: oppresseur, Fr. from oppress.

    I from oppressors did the poor defend,
    The fatherless, and such as had no friend. George Sandys.

    The cries of orphans, and th’ opressor ’s rage,
    Had reach’d the stars. Dryden.

    Power when employed to relieve the oppressed, and to punish the oppressor, becomes a great blessing. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Oppressor

    Oppressor was a technical death metal band from Chicago, Illinois, which formed in 1991 and disbanded in 1999. They released three albums. Three of the band's members went on to form alternative metal band Soil.

ChatGPT

  1. oppressor

    An oppressor is an individual or group that exercises authority, power, or control in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. They abuse their power by causing hardship, suffering, or distress to others, usually to maintain their control or dominance, often contributing to the systematic disenfranchisement of certain groups.

Wikidata

  1. Oppressor

    Oppressor was a technical death metal band from Chicago, Illinois, which formed in 1991 and finished in 1999. They released three albums. Three of the band's members went on to form alternative metal band Soil.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Oppressor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Oppressor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Oppressor in a Sentence

  1. Lindsey Graham:

    Name one person who's been a bigger defender of the Iranian people to fight back against their oppressor.

  2. Martin Luther:

    Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressor

  3. Malcolm X:

    Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

  4. Keke Palmer:

    At 26, I'm looking out and witnessing a physical revolt, and it's a revolt on a scale that I wasn't sure I'd ever see. To those that may not be looking close enough, all they will see is looting, or people who don't really care about the movement, or anarchy without a movement. But what I see is a society responding to the oppressor about how the oppressor has responded to us, racism is what the country was built on : Slavery, systematic oppression, then voter oppression, female oppression, poor education system so you're intentionally uninformed, financial oppression.

  5. Unknown:

    To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.

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