All 8 Uses of
persecution
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But to this day it exists in few monasteries only, and has sometimes been almost persecuted as an innovation in Russia.†
Chpt 1
- That is why in many of our monasteries the institution was at first resisted almost to persecution.†
Chpt 1 *
- The subject was the socialist revolutionaries who were at that time persecuted.†
Chpt 2
- "Lise, for mercy's sake, don't scream, don't persecute me.†
Chpt 4
- They will seek us again, hidden underground in the catacombs, for we shall be again persecuted and tortured.†
Chpt 5
- "Gentlemen of the jury, you remember that awful night of which so much has been said to-day, when the son got over the fence and stood face to face with the enemy and persecutor who had begotten him.†
Chpt 12
- The mere sight of the father who had hated him from his childhood, had been his enemy, his persecutor, and now his unnatural rival, was enough!†
Chpt 12
- But what Christ commands us is something very different: He bids us beware of doing this, because the wicked world does this, but we ought to forgive and to turn the other cheek, and not to measure to our persecutors as they measure to us.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs