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Another word for persecute

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Verb

  1. To do a wrong to; treat unjustly

    See also:

    right

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Another word for persecute

Verb

  1. To oppress, especially for religious reasons

    See also:

    abuse

    Antonyms:

  2. To torment persistently

    See also:

    wrong

    bother

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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.

  • His parents, Joao Mendes da Silva and Louren9a Coutinho, were descended from Portuguese Jews who had emigrated to Brazil to escape the Inquisition, but in 1702 that tribunal began to persecute the Marranos in Rio, and in October 1712 Lourenca Coutinho fell a victim.

  • In 1685 Victor was forced by Louis to persecute his Waldensian subjects, because they had given shelter to the French Huguenot refugees after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

  • Like the mass of the nation, he grew more Protestant as time wore on; he was readier to persecute Papists than Puritans; he had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and he warmly remonstrated with Whitgift over his persecuting Articles of 1583.

  • The French king treated Victor Amadeus almost as a vassal, and obliged him to persecute his Protestant (Waldensian) subjects.

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