repressed, ppl. a.
(rɪˈprɛst)
[f. repress v.1 + -ed1.]
Restrained, checked, suppressed: esp. in Psychol. (cf. repress v.1 3 c). Also absol.
| 1665 Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 439 When the Besiegers had stopped it up behind also, first throwing fire therein, the repressed force thereof at length burst out. 1764 Goldsm. Trav. 346 Repress'd ambition struggles round her shore. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 135 ‘Yes—you are quite right’, said the repressed young painter. 1904 Psychol. Bull. I. 357 The theory of Freud, that dreams are disguised realizations of repressed desires. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-Analysis i. iii. 34 It [sc. the unconscious] also contains the repressed. 1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist v. 187 The publication of Darwin's Origin of Species was to them what psycho-analysis is (or may be) to a patient with a repressed complex. 1954 D. Riesman Individualism Reconsidered (1955) xxii. 336 It was not easy to find convincing evidence for the existence of repressed Oedipal desires in every adult whom he analyzed. 1960 M. Spark Bachelors vi. 81 Repressed homosexuality is a meaningless term because no one can prove it. 1973 J. G. Starke Validity of Psycho-Anal. ii. 14 For psycho-analysts, perhaps the most important component is repressed material. |
Hence reˈpressedly adv.
| 1858 G. Macdonald Phantastes viii, Her forehead was high, and her black eyes repressedly quiet. |