1648. W. Ashhurst, Reasons agst. Agreement, 13. They are to have nothing but in an unoppressive way.
1782–3. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., I. 355. [The Gentoo laws] are unoppressive.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 53. You would have had an unoppressive but a productive revenue.
1874. Ruskin, Fors Clav., xl. IV. 78. What was an act of distressing servitude has become an unoppressive act of love.
