Persecuting is valid Scrabble Word

Is persecuting a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for PERSECUTING in dictionary:

VERB:

PERSECUTE, to harass, afflict, hunt down, or put to death, esp. for religious or political opinions
harass or annoy (someone) persistently
subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to harass or punish in a manner designed to injure, grieve, or afflict; to cause to suffer because of belief

Words related to PERSECUTING

How to use PERSECUTING in a sentence

It may seem curious that to find the persecuting spirit in Greece we have to turn to the philosophers.
I saw the priest of Abydos night and day persecuting the maiden, who had taken refuge in a temple of Isis on the island of Philae.
And the same persecuting spirit was displayed in reference to the Jansenists, who were Catholics, and whose only sin was intellectual boldness.
Take the persecuting Saul, once one of the worst of his enemies.
They long regarded it as merely the persecuting ecclesiastical arm of the British Government.
Pugatchef received me quite cordially, and I told him the truth, that I was in love with Marya, and that Chvabrine was persecuting her.
His persecuting the Church had plainly the nature of sin.
I am against the two extremes of universal license and persecuting tyranny.
But especially the persecuting wars and troubles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, brought hither crowds of exiles.
As he covered his eyes with his hands in shame, he saw the fiery, persecuting Saracens of Tunis, whom he was sailing to meet.

What Luther thought of persecuting the Jews for their religion can be seen from his exposition of Psalm 14.
We feel it obligatory to dress more or less alike, inventing the most ingenious reasons for doing so and actually despising and persecuting those who do not care to conform.
He frequently spoke of being frightened at something, of the attendants plotting against him, and persecuting him.
He tells also how the persecuting lieutenant became his fast friend, and eventually helped him to get his freedom.
Through the energetic efforts of the Consul at Diarbekir, the persecuting governor was deposed, and another appointed.
His rapacity was gratified by plundering the church, his bigotry and arrogance by persecuting heretics.
If I were to write to you against your will, it would seem that I were persecuting you.
She soon discovered, that though he had lately forborn persecuting the Beaumonts, he retained the most inveterate enmity to the whole family.
In 1912 at the time when the customary fair was in full swing, the Governor of Nizhni-Novgorod showed an unusual zeal in persecuting the Jews.
Pope taking up the quarrel where Dryden left it, and persecuting this worthy man with yet a severer degree of satire.
Even when he had that fancy that people were persecuting him.
He that thinks himself most secure of his wife, should be fearful of persecuting her continually with his presence.
So I hesitated, for in Moscow they had been shooting right and left for the past week, persecuting the burjoois and officers.
In Act I an astrologer announces the birth of a giant, who in Act II is represented as persecuting the shepherds.
It is orthodoxy and not truth which has done the persecuting.
Thus Lambert by persecuting the parliament, and Monk by declaring for it, had mutually proclaimed themselves enemies of each other.
The leopard beast which follows, was likewise a persecuting power, grinding out for 1260 years the lives of millions of the followers of Christ.
If you should persist in persecuting me, I know well how I could elude and escape you, and where I could hide myself from you so that you would never be able to find me.
No wonder, for he was called to service by a summons so distinct and unmistakable that he turned at once from persecuting to preaching.
Here the emperor pursued them, and kept up the siege until Aya sought him, imploring him to forgive her sons and to cease persecuting them.
Of these the Vandals carried their Arianism, which proved to be of a very persecuting type, into Africa.
They all set up a shout as soon as they saw him, their enemy, in their power, without his dog, and began persecuting him in a thousand various ways.
The Caliph Omar conquered the Persians, and established Mohammedanism there, persecuting all who would not believe.
In truth, he was an immediate descendant of the Puritans of the seventeenth century, and was distinguished for the persecuting and intolerant spirit of that people.
He at once commenced the indulgence of his persecuting spirit, in the abuse of slavery, and slave owners.
The rest eagerly take service under Beelzebub and become the persecuting garrison.

Similar words containing PERSECUT without suffix ing

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