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dictation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dictation

arbitrary command

The populace began to protest against the dictation of the occupying government

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of dictation

bidding, charging, decreeing, direction, instruction

banning, barring, enjoining, forbidding, interdicting, interdiction, outlawing, prohibiting, prohibition, proscribing, proscription

prescription, prescript, rule

repression, suppression

coercion, compulsion, constraint, force

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of dictation

allowance, permission, sufferance, toleration

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