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• In medieval Europe, Jews were often linked to usury and therefore persecuted by authorities.From the entry usury
• Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.From the entry pimpernel
• That old liar pulled a Galileo gambit and made sure everyone would hate him so he could claim he was just a persecuted free thinker.From the entry Galileo gambit
• For Super Straights to do just that, while claiming that they're persecuted is the ultimate irony.2021 March 15, Michelle Santiago Cortés, “The Super Straights Are Definitely Not Okay”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 17…. From the entry super straight
• Bystanding is not confined to one-off incidents: whole populations stand by while others suffer or are persecuted.2015, Stephen Fineman, The Blame Business: The Uses and Misuses of Accountability, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry bystanding
• The barrister went on to say that his client 'remains persecuted and victimised.2004, Michael Sheridan, Death in December: The Story of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, updated edition, Dublin: O’Brien, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry dna
• Thus a vicious circle is established: the uppers offer participation, and the lowers, feeling persecuted, withdraw.1993, Larry Hirschhorn, Carole K. Barnett, The Psychodynamics of Organizations. From the entry upper
• Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, lived and administered to a flock of persecuted, fourth-century Christians.1957 December 22, Peggy Street, Pierre Street, “Yes, There Was (and Is) a Santa Claus; […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry St. Nicholas
• So it was this beautiful young woman Rokoff had been persecuting.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17. From the entry lazy
• The individual and shared identity of khwaja siras is pivotal to studying why and how they are persecuted.2018 December 6, Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova, Denise Venturi, LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective…. From the entry khwaja sira
• Internally, the Palatine government remained dominated by Calvinists who bullied the largely Lutheran population, persecuted Jews and refused dialogue with Catholics.2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History, Penguin, page 122. From the entry palatine
• If Collins smells a rat, you might gain nothing and tempt the gang to persecute you and your daughter.2015, Mary Brendan, chapter 2, in Tarnished, Tempted and Tamed (Mills & Boon Regency), Richmond, Surrey: Mills & Boon, →ISBN. From the entry smell a rat
• His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart.1960 October 24, “Book of Lamentations”, in Time, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2008, (review of The Last of the Just by André…. From the entry purple prose
• Well over a century later the ‘wedgie’ continues to be persecuted, with some rural Tasmanians taking a gun to it when they can.2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 58. From the entry wedgie
• Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is.2024 April 16, David A. Graham, “Trump’s Alternate-Reality Criminal Trial”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024. From the entry righteously
• A German family that claims it will be persecuted for homeschooling if sent back, lost its asylum request Monday at the U.S.2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN. From the entry homeschooling
• In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.2012, C. S. Shapley, Studies in French Poetry of the Fifteenth Century, page 5. From the entry prefigure
• Then I think about Georg Cantor, burnt out at forty, and persecuted to the point of madness by people opposed to his ideas about transfinity.2005, Scarlett Thomas, PopCo, page 301. From the entry transfinity
• Also, in the internal historicity of the Bible accounts, this event had persuaded many Jews to convert and had pushed the priests to persecute Jesus.1999, Death and Dying in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 357. From the entry resurrection
• A Bosnia-Herzegovinan official -- this year's Haile Selassie -- says that if the world intervened to escort relief to starving, persecuted Kurds, why not Bosnians?1992 May 21, William Safire, “Essay; Punish the Serbs”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Bosnia-Herzegovinan
• He did not persecute or defame.1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46. From the entry fair play
• A big government man is persecuted because he takes a bottle whisky and a toikey from a friend who vants a license or something.1956, Eugene Burdick, The Ninth Wave, page 246. From the entry toikey
• Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, who had been ruined in the Revolution wars.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry gentrice
• Who’s then perfectly happy to sit by while thousands of her own employees are persecuted, arrested, slung in jail, or, in at least four horrific cases, kill themselves?2024 May 31, “Press: Vennells appears in the court of the columnists”, in Church Times. From the entry woman of the cloth
• Limbaugh, the New York Times and social justice warriors throughout the fruited plain were revulsed by James’ lack of empathy for the persecuted Hong Kong throng.2019 October 24, Fraser P. Seitel, “LeBron and the limits of social responsibility”, in O’Dwyer’s, volume 33, number 7, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Greta Thunbergian
• In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted.1998, Geert H. Hofstede, Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures, page 205. From the entry Sunni
• However, the Priests of the idols, not content with persecuting Christians, began to calumny them; the Philosophers, finding a Religion that preached humility unrewarding, joined their Priests.1997, [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau, “[Discourse on the Sciences and Arts or First Discourse, part II.] Observations [to Stanislas, King of…. From the entry calumny
• Tragically, as cultures were conquered by new religions and their old wisdom-keepers persecuted, most of this oral soundlore was lost—forcibly forgotten, or buried beneath the new priesthood's patter and Babel.2008, Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen, The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems. From the entry soundlore

Meaning of persecute

1. verb To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
2. verb To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
3. verb To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.

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Questions about persecute in a sentence

How do you use persecute in a sentence?

Persecute is used as a verb. For example: “He who persecutes one will persecute all.”

What is a short sentence with persecute?

“He did not persecute or defame.”

What does persecute mean?

Persecute means to pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.