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Definition of Persecute
1. Verb. Cause to suffer. "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
Generic synonyms: Bedevil, Crucify, Dun, Frustrate, Rag, Torment
Specialized synonyms: Purge
Derivative terms: Oppressive, Oppressor, Persecution, Persecutor
Definition of Persecute
1. v. t. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
Definition of Persecute
1. Verb. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death for one's race, sexual identity, adherence to a particular religious creed, or mode of worship. ¹
2. Verb. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Persecute
1. [v -CUTED, -CUTING, -CUTES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persecute
Literary usage of Persecute
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1848)
"David is risen up in a conspiracy against Saul, therefore persecute him. ...
And therefore, when they persecute Christ Jesus in his truths or servants, ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"So he who saith, if ye murder, God is the author of it; if ye persecute, God is
the author of it; if ye do unrighteously, God is the author of it; ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"So you have no command from Christ or his apostles to persecute, imprison, banish,
or spoil the goods of any for matter of pure conscience and religion, ..."
4. The Papacy and the Civil Power by Richard Wigginton Thompson (1876)
"Their Adherents persecute each Other.—More and Fisher. —Henry VIII. always a Roman
... Edward VI. the first Protestant King.—He does not persecute Papists. ..."
5. The Papacy and the Civil Power by Richard Wigginton Thompson (1876)
"Their Adherents persecute each Other.—More and Fisher. —Henry VIII. always a Roman
... He does not persecute Papists.—Gives the Crown to Lady Jane Grey. ..."
6. Explanatory notes upon the New Testament by John Wesley (1813)
"... they will also persecute you: if they have love its own ... they who know not
God, will, ft'''" canse, hate and persecute those that do. • V. 22. ..."
7. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"So persecute them with thy tempest, 109:16. but persecuted the poor and needy man,
... 7: K2).all them that persecute me, 5.1 atn pursuing after Zebah and ..."
8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1827)
"He is pro- Even the religious toleration which Theodoric had persecute t^le S^ory °?
introducing into the christian world, was the catho- painful and ..."
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