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noun

Suppression n.

The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

(Med.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.

(Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

Synonyms: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention; retention; obstruction.

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Etymology of 'Suppression'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suppression" Quotes from Famous Books

... every step and stage of progress the dogmatists have exerted their influence toward retardation. What these dogmatists were unable to accomplish through fear and suppression, they accomplished through ostracism, and death. Human advancement and progress are foreign to the "believing" mind. The dogmatists are concerned only with the "supernatural." They want not the comforts of life here if they can secure ...

— Tyranny of God • Joseph Lewis

... vindication of the decrees of Providence; and to revolt against them appears to me neither pious in a moral point of view, nor wise in a political. That which is proved by the most remarkable facts of History, will not be altered in the smallest degree by the suppression of my work, or by my condemnation. The charge on this head is an absurdity, since no rational end can be attained by it. It aims at the suppression of a truth which, should I not tell it, will be ever louder and louder proclaimed by ...

— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker

... been revolutionists, advocating and practicing violence and murder, their suppression would have been an easy matter; some of them could have been bought over, some could have been duped, some could have been overawed, and these who could not be bought over, duped, or overawed would have been treated as criminals, enemies of society, would have been executed or imprisoned, and ...

— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

... silent a few moments, and then said, in that high, feeble voice which with him indicated the resolute suppression of emotion,— ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... young man, in 1718, was essentially an attempt to gather together "moral wisdom" clothed in consummate language. He inculcated a moderation of feeling, a broad and general study of mankind, an acceptance of the benefits of civilisation, and a suppression of individuality. Even in so violent and so personal a work as the Dunciad he expends all the resources of his genius to make his anger seem moral and his indignation a public duty. This conception of the ethical responsibility of verse was universal, ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

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