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Definition of Persecuted
1. persecute [v] - See also: persecute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persecuted
Literary usage of Persecuted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"THE Persecuted LEARNED. THOSE who have laboured most zealously to instruct mankind
have been those who have suffered most from ignorance ; and the ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1804)
"His memory persecuted. The servile crowd of the palace, who had so long adored
the fortune of Stilicho, affected to insult his fall ; and the most distant ..."
3. Publications (1848)
"In the persecuted state, magistrates hated the very name of Christ, or Christianity.
In the state apostate, some few magistrates, in their persons holy and ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"THE Persecuted LEARNED. THOSE who have laboured most zealously to instruct mankind,
have been those who have suffered most from ignorance; ..."
5. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1898)
"In 1662 the act of uniformity was pa«a!, and dissenters were severely persecuted
in \VaH In 1663 Mr. My les and several members of his church fled to New ..."
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