Persecute Synonyms and Antonyms

Persecute Sentence Examples

• For when after death the powers of the air throng around and persecute, the soul flees into the first lodging of clay that it finds.

• Even Foxe records instances in which Bonner failed to persecute.

• But the affairs of Lombardy left him no leisure to persecute a recalcitrant pontiff.

• When emperors became converts, the church, so lately a victim and a pleader for liberty, readily learned to persecute.

• In politics he was a zealous Royalist, asserting that even the unjust and tyrannous violence of princes may not be resisted, although it might be avoided in terms of the instruction, "when they persecute you in one city, flee into another."