Definitions
restrictive of action
Word origin
From repress + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“Human law is indeed repressive, but repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed”
“First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.”
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01“Authoritarian”10 letters
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