Persecution is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERSECUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of persecuting
• hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs; oppression
• persistent annoyance or harassment
• The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
• The state or condition of being persecuted.
• A carrying on; prosecution.
• the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or practice of persecuting especially those who differ in origin, religion, or social outlook

Words related to PERSECUTION

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Words that contain PERSECUTION

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How to use PERSECUTION in a sentence

• The story turns on the persecution of the Christians under Trajan.
• Some of these men had come to the Creek nation before the Revolutionary War, and others, being tories, had fled to it during the war, and after it to escape from whig persecution.
• Oh, I assure you, I know the frightful persecution they can wage on a professor who is economically dependent on his university.
• He gave her a ring, in virtue of which he assured her she would in future escape the persecution, and even the jealousy of her husband.
• They were heard with great candour and eagerness by some, and rejected by others with obstinacy and wrath, and cruel persecution.
• Persecution of Christians has been and is very severe in Meaco, where almost sixty are prisoners for the faith.
• The persecution to which the Bohemians were subjected has perhaps never been exceeded in severity.
• The church in time of persecution prayeth for relief.
• If ever there was anything to which, from reason, nature, habit, and principle, I am totally averse, it is persecution for conscientious difference in opinion.
• Spectators impressed by the sufferings of the Christians, 284 The blood of the martyrs the seed of the Church, 285 Persecution promoted the purity of the Church, ib.
• Christian graces gloriously displayed in times of persecution, ib.
• This prince repealed the sanguinary laws of his predecessor, and the disciples had a respite from persecution.
• At the same time the Socialist press was handicapped by every sort of persecution.
• Nick Ribsam had conquered a peace, and from that time forth he suffered no persecution at school.
• They had suffered sore persecution, and had met in glens and deep recesses of the mountains, for the worship of God and the study of his Word.
• Finally they rose against Him even to the extreme of persecution and shedding His blood.
• Then in the sistine he turns to his guide and begs him to lead him to some precipice, so that he may no longer endure this contempt and persecution of nature.
• Perverted and corrupted, they have served as a basis for many creeds, and been even made the warrant for intolerance and persecution.
• Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.
• Prince Bismarck was in favor of a continuance of harsh measures with regard to labor, and of persecution of the most resentless nature so far as the socialists were concerned.
• But after six years of persecution, the mind of Galerius, softened by salutary reflection, induced him to attempt some reparation.
• This persecution of a woman is beneath even your brutality.
• I have now reviewed all the facts connected with the history of our oppression and persecution during the past hundred years.
• Pau and his accomplices hoped by this persecution to force Grotius to seek a reconciliation with the Dutch by some meanness.
• It is recorded of the early Quakers, that, in the times of the hottest persecution, they stood to their testimony in the places appointed for their worship.

Similar words containing PERSECU without suffix tion

persecute13 persecuted15 persecutee14 persecutes14 persecutor14 persecutees15 persecuting16 persecutive18 persecutors15 persecutory18 persecutions16 unpersecuted17

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