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very bad and unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope; and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time.1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — Partly in France, and partly in Tuscany (8% in)
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