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  • And some of you have come from areas where your quest--quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.  (source)
    persecution = bad, ongoing, and unfair treatment
  • "Now I'm feeling persecuted," said McClean.  (source)
    persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
  • The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.  (source)
    persecuted = ongoing unfair treatment of others -- usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
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  • Lip-lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution.  (source)
    persecution = bad, ongoing, and unfair treatment
  • Spoken by a member of a despised and persecuted race.†  (source)
    persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
  • They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did.†  (source)
    persecute = treat very badly and unfairly
  • Backslapping and cheers for all the cops, and then more cheers for me, as if these people hadn't been my persecutors a day before.†  (source)
  • He, whose persecutions had been the cause of my sin!  (source)
    persecutions = unfair treatment
  • He could rule for centuries or millennia-persecuting and tormenting people the entire time-unless we stop him.†  (source)
    persecuting = treating very badly and unfairly
  • His persecutor agreed.†  (source)
    persecutor = someone who treats others (or another) very badly and unfairly
  • Just play poker and stay single and live where and how he wants to, if people would let him, he says, "but you know how society persecutes a dedicated man.†  (source)
  • And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.†  (source)
    persecutest = treat very badly and unfairly
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou persecutest" in older English, today we say "You persecute."
  • He stopped, blushed, then continued low and sadly: "Ah, my malady persecuteth me again, and my mind wandereth.†  (source)
    persecuteth = treats very badly and unfairly
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She persecuteth" in older English, today we say "She persecutes."
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