repression

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1. 1a state of forcible subjugation
2. 2(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
3. 3the act of repressing; control by holding down

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• the long repression of Christian sects
• his goal was the repression of insolence