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persecutions

persecutions is the plural of persecution.

Meaning of persecution

Noun

persecution (countable and uncountable, plural persecutions)

  1. The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution.
    • Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.

Questions about persecutions

What is persecutions the plural of?
Persecutions is the plural of persecution.

Words near persecutions in the dictionary

  1. persecutingly
  2. persecution
  3. persecution complex
  4. persecution complexes
  5. persecutional
  6. persecutions
  7. persecutive
  8. persecutor
  9. persecutorial
  10. persecutorily
  11. persecutors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: persecutions (page history and authors); persecution (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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