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Definition
very bad and unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.p. 254.1
persecuted = ongoing unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering — a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting — three hundred million people all with the same face.p. 74.3
- You have read of the religious persecutions of the past.p. 253.7
- Did I not tell you just now that we are different from the persecutors of the past?p. 255.1
- The object of persecution is persecution.p. 263.8
- The object of persecution is persecution.p. 263.8
There are no more uses of "persecution" in 1984 by Orwell.
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