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    • repression :a state of forcible subjugation
      • the long repression of Christian sects

    • repression :the act of repressing; control by holding down
      • his goal was the repression of insolence

    • repression :(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

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