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  2. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    There is no single, widely accepted definition of social oppression. Philosopher Elanor Taylor defines social oppression in this way: Oppression is a form of injustice that occurs when one social group is subordinated while another is privileged, and oppression is maintained by a variety of different mechanisms including social norms ...

  3. DARVO - Wikipedia

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    DARVO is a tactic used by a perpetrator to avoid accountability for their actions. As the acronym suggests, DARVO commonly involves these steps: . The perpetrator denies the harm or abuse ever took place.

  4. List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia

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    A aggravate – Some have argued that this word should not be used in the sense of "to annoy" or "to oppress", but only to mean "to make worse". According to AHDI, the use of "aggravate" as "annoy" occurs in English as far back as the 17th century. In Latin, from which the word was borrowed, both meanings were used. Sixty-eight percent of AHD4's usage panel approves of its use in "It's the ...

  5. Internalized oppression - Wikipedia

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    The fact the medical establishment is a significant factor that causes and contributes to interalized ableism with frameworks such as the pathology paradigm mean that disabled people trying to enact emancipatory change and self-identify are often deemed as "anti-science" by individuals and institutions which subscribe to scientism.

  6. The Man - Wikipedia

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    The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, who is afraid of other people in society, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)."

  7. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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    The visible section or "overt" is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word. [15] Within sentence word syntax there are 6 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), imperative (a command), locative (relating to a place), and interrogative (asking a ...

  8. Religious persecution - Wikipedia

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    "Religious cleansing" is sometimes used in reference to the removal of a population from a certain territory based on its religion. [26] More recently, “religious cleansing” has been used in reference to the elimination of all religious structures or all individuals who adhere to a particular religion and live within a larger community ...

  9. De oppresso liber - Wikipedia

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    Oppresso is the past participle of opprimere ("to oppress") in the ablative case as governed by de, meaning "an oppressed person". The adjective Liber is in the nominative case, "a free person". Similar phrases