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Definition of Persecutory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persecutory
Literary usage of Persecutory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textbook of insanity by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1905)
"In this case the disease-picture is made up of ideas of persecutory content (persecutory
insanity), yet episodically manifestations of complimentary, ..."
2. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"Yet, in these instances, the persecutory ideas never become systematized, ...
Usually such acute persecutory delusions occur just before or directly after ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"In our cases persecutory delusions were common, a persecutory mood, so to speak,
... On these postulates, a theory might be bas^d that: given a persecutory ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1901)
"Perhaps the parallel goes deeper than this, and katatonia is at bottom a peculiar
psycho-motor reaction to persecutory delusions, as the exalted delusion in ..."
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