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Definition of Persecutions
1. persecution [n] - See also: persecution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persecutions
Literary usage of Persecutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Robert Studley Vidal, James Murdock (1854)
"We have been for ages in the-.habit of considering the number of these persecutions
as decidedly fixed at ten ; but the early history of Christianity does ..."
2. The Rise of the Mediaeval Church and Its Influence on the Civilisation of by Alexander Clarence Flick (1909)
"Number and general character of the persecutions. V.—Results of persecutions.
VI.—Sources. RELIGIOUS persecution originated long before the Christian era ..."
3. The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times by Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"persecutions i^Hk East — Extinction of the Princes of the Captivity —
Jews :.a Palestine — in the Byzantine Empire — Fendal System — Chivalry — Power of the ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"... the primitive Christians lamented and perhaps magnified their own sufferings;
The ten but the celebrated number of ten persecutions has been de- tiom. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"The purest enjoyments of life were poisoned for him by the unheard-of persecutions
of party spirit. This party spirit showed itself even in the manner in ..."
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