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PERSECUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("persecution" is a kind of...):
abuse; ill-treatment; ill-usage; maltreatment (cruel or inhumane treatment)
Domain category:
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "persecution"):
oppression; subjugation (the act of subjugating by cruelty)
pogrom (organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews))
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
Derivation:
persecute (cause to suffer)
Context examples:
His temper had been savage by birth, but it became more savage under this unending persecution.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But be that as it may, they joined with Lip-lip in the persecution.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was early in the days of his persecution that he played his first really big crafty game and got therefrom his first taste of revenge.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Larger, older, and stronger, Lip- lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And not for nothing had his puppyhood been made bitter by the persecution of Lip-lip and the whole puppy pack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was an involuntary bristling on his part, the physical state that in the past had always accompanied the mental state produced in him by Lip-lip's bullying and persecution.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He did not dare venture away from the gods, for now the fangs of all dogs were against him, and he tasted to the dregs the persecution that had been White Fang's.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
An outcast himself from the pack of the part-grown dogs, his sanguinary methods and remarkable efficiency made the pack pay for its persecution of him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In the past he had observed Lip-lip's persecution of White Fang; but at that time Lip-lip was another man's dog, and Mit-sah had never dared more than to shy an occasional stone at him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him—and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
