Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
downtrodden .
Etymologies
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downtrodden + -ness
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Examples
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They hain't a-goin 'to make a silver woman and call it Justice, if they lay out to keep their idee of wimmen in the future, as they have in the past, the holler pewter image stuffed full of all sorts of injustices, and meannesses, and downtroddenness.
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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So, your focus on the sins of others may give you some kind of cathartic comfort, however, ignoring our very own roles in our downtroddenness will do nothing to fix it.
altmuslim 2009
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