Oppression vs Subaltern - What's the difference?
oppression | subaltern |
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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, title= Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
(logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
A subordinate.
(British) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
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(logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows are black'' is a subaltern of ''all crows are black .
As nouns the difference between oppression and subaltern
is that oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner while subaltern is a subordinate.As an adjective subaltern is
of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.oppression
English
Noun
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
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* *subaltern
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a subaltern officer