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Definition of Persecuting
1. persecute [v] - See also: persecute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persecuting
Literary usage of Persecuting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1848)
"He ends this passage with approbation of Queen Elizabeth for persecuting the
papists, and a reproof to King James for his persecuting the puritans, &c. ..."
2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"Where ' is your love to your enemies who are thus persecuting your friends ? "
He came to his own, and his own received him not" Here is a turn- ' ing the ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... first parliament met in January, 1559- Terms of the final settlement: summary
of the act restoring the royal supremacy; persecuting statutes repealed; ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"Such was the persecuting spirit of the laws of Theodosius, which were ri-peatedly
enforced by his sons and grandsons, with the loud and unanimous applause ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The English element in Ontario, it was declared passionately, was persecuting
those who used French. Their French press carried on a violent agitation, ..."
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