"repressions" in the noun sense
1. repression
a state of forcible subjugation
"the long repression of Christian sects"
2. repression
psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
3. repression
the act of repressing control by holding down
"his goal was the repression of insolence"
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