Oppression /(?)/

Op·pres·sion

Oppression

n.
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
  2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
  3. 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 Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense.
  4. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.]