How To Use Persecutor In A Sentence
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We had returned nearly to the hotel in this undignified manner, the throng of persecutors gathering strength as we entered the streets, till we were completely surrounded -- those in front walking backwards, and stopping every now and then suddenly, that we might be jostled against by those who were thronging behind, all bellowing the pandemoniacal chorus, without words and still less tune.
Sea-Gift. A Novel.
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God hath fitted for the special use of these times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests nor among the Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors.
Areopagitica
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The goat went last and she did not bleat, but dextrously butted two of her persecutors and micturated upon the third before being cast into space.
Greener Than You Think
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Maybe they are really the Puritans of our age, a kind of persecutory cult of moral perfectionism?
American Thinker
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This then leads you to lash out over something trivial as you become the "persecutor". '
Home | Mail Online
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Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound "(Ro 5: 20). with faith -- accompanied with faith, the opposite of" unbelief "(1Ti love -- in contrast to" a blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious. "which is in Christ -- as its element and home [Alford]: here as its source whence it flows to us.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The near-impossibility of arguing people out of political, social and religious beliefs is the same phenomenon as the impossibility of arguing deluded patients out of their false persecutory or jealous beliefs.www. hedweb.com/bgcharlton/delusions. html
Election Prediction: Voting will be Irrational, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Men spoke to him of the mild beams of Christian charity, and where they pointed he saw only the yellow glare of the stake; they talked of the gentle solace of Christian faith, and he heard only the shrieks of the thousands and tens of thousands whom faithful Christian persecutors had racked, strangled, gibbeted, burned, broken on the wheel.
Voltaire
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He added, ‘This did not prevent endless hysterical, persecutory coverage with tabloids hounding doctors and managers.’
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He asks whether the persecutory figures are still there.
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It would be very silly of my persecutor to risk some mishap, Rafaelli being caught red-handed, the whole plot compromised.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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The bull was in the greatest fury, and rose to the surface, snorting and blowing in his impotent rage; but as the ambatch float was exceedingly large, and this naturally accompanied his movements, he tried to escape from his imaginary persecutor, and dived constantly, only to find his pertinacious attendant close to him upon regaining the surface.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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“Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases,”
Delusion
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This may take the form of either pursuance of a formally sanctioned persecutory scheme, or non-conforming behaviour by official agents which is not subject to a timely and effective rectification by the State.
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But the third, the biggie, is that the psychopathology that leads to murder is that the killer often feels what we call persecutory distress obsessional paranoia, which is the belief that the victim is threatening their well-being in some way and that the only way they can restore their psychic equilibrium is to wipe out the victim.
CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009
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His persecutors were severely punished.
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Studying the cultural influences on people's delusions or persecutory thinking, and looking at different aspects of culture and how they effect people's behavior, is a legitmate area of inquiry," Dr. Swartz said.
Mental illness expert: We should be asking whether political climate helped trigger shooting
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Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
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For example, paranoid schizophrenia is typified by exaggerated suspicions of others and fear of persecutory schemes.
Henry’s Demons
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And Paul, an apostle and leader in the church, was once ‘a blasphemer, a persecutor and a man of violence.’
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They have, on the contrary, steadily maintained that the sectaries were the persecutors, since the company had exclusive ownership of the soil, and acted in self-defence.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
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This, said he, (and honoured me by kissing my hand,) is engaging, indeed; if I may hope, that my Pamela's gentle inclination for her persecutor was the strongest motive to her return; and I so much value a voluntary love in the person I would wish for my wife, that I would have even prudence and interest hardly named in comparison with it: And can you return me sincerely the honest compliment I now make you?
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
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But true religion is rare, and the best modern security against the persecutor is the secular power.
The Life of Froude
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The paranoid type have prominent persecutory or grandiose delusions or hallucinations with similar content.
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Tim. 1:13 Who formerly was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insulting person; but I was shown mercy because, being ignorant, I acted in unbelief.
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Persecutors will seek to deflect us from the course God has set for our lives.
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Heracles, the most renowned subjugator of all the semi-divine personages worshipped by the Hellenes, — a being of irresistible force, and especially beloved by Zeus, yet condemned constantly to labour for others and to obey the commands of a worthless and cowardly persecutor.
The Iliad of Homer
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Broadstreet seeing himself thus in danger began to flinch and to sculk; for some of the old royalists were earnest with the Quakers to prosecute the New England persecutors.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
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But to bring good out of evil and cut down persecutors, are very different things from "foreordaining whatsoever comes to pass.
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
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Reality-based persecutory fantasies: Much of Loughner's paranoia about government control, etc. is likely delusional, but there is one area where his persecutory beliefs are grounded in reality.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Understanding The Arizona Shooter From The Inside Out
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Sed bonus ille Pastor, qui gregem suum, pro quo animam suam posuit, constantissime diligit, persecutorum rabiem tempestive semper, et exserta saepe dextera, miraculose repressit, et seductorum vias tortuosas, ac consilia fraudulenta detexit atque dissipavit, utroque se in Ecclesia sua praesentissimum esse demonstrans.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Piety never more decisively asserts its celestial birth than when it stands unblenched under the frown of the persecutor, or calmly awaits the shock of death.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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Hitler was a "persecutor" of Jews, but the "enemy" of Jews was the power that occupied Palestine, the British.
Signs of the Times
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When injured, he immediately forgave, as he hoped to be forgiven, [1] and when reviled and persecuted, he never became 'persecutor'.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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I actually even think he had ultimately forgiven his persecutors and the slayers of his family -- and that would be a mastership that one can only view with awe.
Mike Schwager: Remembering My Father: His Greatest Lesson to Me Was His Life
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He admits that he was once a blasphemer and a persecutor of the faith.
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Every afternoon, the lepers would gather at the fence to mock the lunatics as they were let out for their exercise, performing their strange dances and shouting at unseen persecutors.
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The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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He should be commended for standing his ground and laying into the government "persecutor".
"The government has no legal or moral authority to interrogate me or anyone else for publishing these words and pictures."
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However, in my attempts to understand I am not hampered by the persecutory activities of the state, religion or the mob.
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As Laurin Zilliacus reminds us, the Book of Esther describes “the use of posts to order the slaughter of the Jews throughout Persian-ruled territory, and then the swift sending of the counter-order that saved them and turned the tables on their persecutors.”
The Tyranny of E-mail
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The robot scampers around a bit, but when the physicist raises the hammer, the machine turns over on its back, emits a few piteous squeals, and looks up at its persecutor with enormous, terror-stricken eyes.
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Paul, the persecutor of Christians was now willing to be perse - cuted for the gospel's sake.
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He used to drink in order to narcotize his persecutors, now he prays in stead.
Justin Frank: The Deepest Terror
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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Archive 2007-12-01
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The character of Theophilus is a rare example in which religious zeal has allowed, and perhaps magnified, the virtues of a heretic and a persecutor.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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God's saints, she was their most bitter and relentless persecutor, yea, was "_drunken with the blood of the saints_, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
The Revelation Explained
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Christian fundamentalists are not "egging" the Islamic persecutors on; in fact they are among the few willing to defend Middle East Christians.
Sound Politics: Floyd McKay Flirts With Bigotry
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She has not gained insight into her pre-existing persecutory beliefs.
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Church of Smyrna endured at the hands of its Jewish and heathen persecutors and oppressors, thlibein and thlipsis being constant words to express this (1 Thess. iii.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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The New York Times "lionized" (p. 100) now disgraced former Durham County, North Carolina District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, the persecutor of the members of the 2005-2006
Undefined
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He pressed the emperor to call Theophilus to a legal synod: but that obstinate persecutor alleged that he could not return without danger of his life.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Dr Freeman believes that the research points to a potential treatment for helping to reduce the risk of developing persecutory thoughts.
Boing Boing
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Among the types are the "persecutor" who micromanages or abuses others.
How Dad's Yelling Can Spawn an Office Tyrant
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Is a kind of alchymist or persecutor of nature, that would change the dull lead of his brain into finer metal, with success many times as unprosperous, or at least not quitting the cost, to wit, of his own oil and candles.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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And the religious fanaticism that Morier tweaked also echoes down the years: A character named Nadan who wants to become Tehran's religious leader, Morier writes, has no peer "either as a zealous practiser of the ordinances of his religion, or a persecutor of those who might be its enemies.
Five Best
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Delusional guilt can also cause persecutory beliefs such as the feeling that others are critical of the individual.
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As early as 1523, he became a persecutor, and burned many at the stake, among whom the descendants of the Waldenses were the most numerous.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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But the persecutory thoughts returned, this time much worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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And herein also is the polity of the dragon derived to the false prophet, and a colour tempered for persecutors to imbrue their hands in the blood of martyrs.
The Sermons of John Owen
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I trembled lest this Barnard, if so I should still continue to call her persecutor, should again discover and again molest her.
Devereux — Volume 03
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He had persecutory delusions as previously mentioned.
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Some understand this too restrictedly, as if the meaning were, "Swear not at your persecutors, at those that reproach you and say all manner of evil of you; be not put into a passion by the injuries they do you, so as in your passion to be provoked to swear.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Note, Those who have themselves apostatized from the truths of God are often the most subtle and barbarous persecutors of those who still adhere to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
