Definition of Persecutive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Persecutive

perscopating
perscrutation
perscrutations
perse
persecuted
persecutee
persecutees
persecutes
persecutest
persecuteth
persecuting
persecution complex
persecutions
persecutive (current term)
persecutor
persecutors
persecutory
persecutory type of paranoid disorder
persecutour
persecutrices
persecutrix
perseid
perseity
perself
perservere
perses
perseus
persever

Literary usage of Persecutive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"... the former being connected largely with persecutive ideas; some manifestations of religious monomania ; a history of alcoholism, and the fact that his ..."

2. The Philosophy of Education: Being the Foundation of Education in the by Herman Harrell Horne (1907)
"... one is presented with the frequent and sad spectacle of freedom becoming intolerant, the Protestant becoming dogmatic, the Puritan becoming persecutive. ..."

3. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1896)
"Public opinion Is not at present In favor of persecutive measures, such as Imprisonment of our preachers which might still be done, were existing laws ..."

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