2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity;
tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9.
3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression;
dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the
lungs.
There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized
My drowsed sense.
Milton.