Oppressions is valid Scrabble Word

Is oppressions a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for OPPRESSIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:

OPPRESSION, unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power
the state of being subject to oppressive treatment
mental pressure or distress
prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power; something that oppresses especially in being an unjust or excessive exercise of power

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How to use OPPRESSIONS in a sentence

On the contrary, I hastened to the poor and needy, whom I fully acquainted with the various wrongs and oppressions which they underwent at the hands of the powerful and the rich.
He violated his parole of honor, and the Highlanders began to be as bold as ever in their oppressions of the Whigs.
The oppressions of these young brutes are heart-sickening to call to recollection.
It is impossible to look to the oppressions of the country respecting which those differences arose without being deeply affected.
The power of the head of the nation was commonly too weak, either to preserve the public peace, or to protect the people against the oppressions of their immediate lords.
It is impossible that a Person should exert himself to Advantage in an Assembly, whether it be his Part either to sing or speak, who lies under too great Oppressions of Modesty.
Oppressions will be carried on as radically by the majority when adjustments and accommodations will be held up.
In 1757 the people of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Georgia, decided to send some one to England to petition against these oppressions.
I have been dumb To all the oppressions I was doomed to see.
They had had kings in the early periods of their history, but they made themselves odious by their pride and their oppressions, and the people had deposed and expelled them.

Historians give us facts showing English oppressions sufficient to destroy any nation.
He gave us a gloomy picture of the oppressions and cruelties of the planters.
Had taxes been uniform, it would have been universally objected to, for no one object could be selected without involving great inconveniences and oppressions.
Let the former oppressions of your house be forgotten in your good deeds.
The lords and commons joined in demanding from the king a remedy against the oppressions of the apostolic see.
Instead of equality before God and the law, the humbler classes were feudal serfs, without any appeal from the cruel oppressions to which they were exposed.
Mystic oppressions of hidden disaster hovered over her in the atmosphere of the room.
The peculiar custom in England, of impressing seamen on every appearance of war, will occasionally expose our seamen to peculiar oppressions and vexations.
It is true, that in the mean time, we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war, and long oppressions of enormous public debt.
But he did not confine his oppressions to the poor.
The house had been told, for instance, to seek for the source of these evils in the local oppressions practised in Ireland, rather than in the general restrictive laws.
Lord John Russell moved for a repeal of the corporation and test acts, oppressions which goaded the dissenters, and which in themselves were as profane as they were hypocritical.
Oppressions the most barbarous were wrought by his sanguinary and faithless hand.
Our oppressions in India, and our sanction to the most cruel superstitions of the natives, led to no outcry from the Bishops.
He made many other complaints against the oppressions of Montezuma, and concluded by earnestly soliciting our friendship and alliance.
His cruelties and oppressions had long made him odious to his subjects, and the climax came when a popular uprising hurled him from his throne and drove him an exile to Holland.
When oppressions grow too great and universal to be borne, nature or necessity may find a remedy.
Then, addressing the throne of grace, I besought the Lord to have mercy on them and relieve them from the oppressions under which they laboured.
Pen, you will remember, was full of the oppressions of genius, of Apollo being tied down to such an Admetus as Bungay.
The very same year the County Palatine of Chester received the same relief from its oppressions, and the same remedy to its disorders.
To your own thoughts I shall leave it to furnish the detail of oppressions involved in them.
To the rival churches of that country may be traced ALL the oppressions suffered by its people who never can be materially improved till purged of their faith in priests.
That these oppressions exist is a fact no more denied than it is resented as it ought to be.

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