repression : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: repression	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for repression
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repression n a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects" (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repression \Repres"sion\ (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F. r[82]pression.] 1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression* of evil and evil doers. 2. That which represses; check; restraint.