persecution

[ UK /pˌɜːsɪkjˈuːʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌpɝsəkˈjuʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
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How To Use persecution In A Sentence

  • Long grassers drinking and partying habits are used as justification for this persecution.
  • The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
  • It is worthwhile to note that both suffered persecution.
  • In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Emperor Marcus Aurelius died in 181, and the Church was little troubled by persecution for the following twenty years.
  • These English colonists were a pious, self - disciplined people who wanted to escape religious persecution.
  • If any one hated papistry Mrs. Bolton did so; but from a similar action of religious fanaticism she had fallen into worse that papistical self-persecution. John Caldigate
  • ‘The persecution makes us strong’, said Vic emphatically.
  • The court argued that someone working in the government finance ministry could not possibly be subject to persecution.
  • In the sixteenth chapter, Gibbon examines the persecution of Christians by several Roman emperors.
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