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Webster 1913 Edition
Persecution
Perˊse-cu′tion
,Noun.
[F.
persécution
, L. persecutio
.] 1.
The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
Persecution
produces no sincere conviction. Paley.
2.
The state or condition of being persecuted.
Locke.
3.
A carrying on; prosecution.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Persecution
PERSECU'TION
,Noun.
1.
The state of being persecuted. Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest. Lam.5.
Definition 2024
persecution
persecution
See also: persécution
English
Noun
persecution (uncountable)
- The act of persecuting.
- A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.
- 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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Translations
the act of persecuting
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a program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people
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