All 15 Uses
persecution
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
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- "True," replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; "but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the stanchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator."†
Chpt 5-6persecution = very bad and unfair treatment
- It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.†
Chpt 13-14 *persecutions = instances of very bad and unfair treatment
- He consigned his unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, and found them all insufficient, because after torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least the boon of unconsciousness.†
Chpt 15-16
- Yes, indeed, I have often thought with a bitter joy that these riches, which would make the wealth of a dozen families, will be forever lost to those men who persecute me.†
Chpt 17-18persecute = treat very badly and unfairly
- Nothing is easier than to begin with fair promises and assurances of nothing to fear; but when poor, silly folks, like my husband there, have been persuaded to tell all they know, the promises and assurances of safety are quickly forgotten; and at some moment when nobody is expecting it, behold trouble and misery, and all sorts of persecutions, are heaped on the unfortunate wretches, who cannot even see whence all their afflictions come.†
Chpt 25-26persecutions = instances of very bad and unfair treatment
- When the emperor returned, he wrote, implored, threatened, and so energetically, that on the second restoration he was persecuted as a Bonapartist.†
Chpt 27-28persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
- "Because," replied Franz, "you seem to me like a man who, persecuted by society, has a fearful account to settle with it."†
Chpt 31-32
- For I have no friend but yourself upon earth, who am neglected and forgotten by my father, harassed and persecuted by my mother-in-law, and left to the sole companionship of a paralyzed and speechless old man, whose withered hand can no longer press mine, and who can speak to me with the eye alone, although there still lingers in his heart the warmest tenderness for his poor grandchild.†
Chpt 51-52
- "No, Maximilian, I am not offended," answered she, "but do you not see what a poor, helpless being I am, almost a stranger and an outcast in my father's house, where even he is seldom seen; whose will has been thwarted, and spirits broken, from the age of ten years, beneath the iron rod so sternly held over me; oppressed, mortified, and persecuted, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, no person has cared for, even observed my sufferings, nor have I ever breathed one word on the subject save to yourself.†
Chpt 51-52
- ; in fact, he could say, 'These two children of a cruel and persecuting king, who have inherited the vices of their father, which I alone could perceive in their juvenile propensities—these two children are impediments in my way of promoting the happiness of the English people, whose unhappiness they (the children) would infallibly have caused.'†
Chpt 51-52persecuting = treating very badly and unfairly
- "Now," replied Monte Cristo "there is only one source of uneasiness left in your father's mind, which is this—he is anxious to know how you have been employed during your long absence from him, how you have been treated by your persecutors, and if they have conducted themselves towards you with all the deference due to your rank.†
Chpt 55-56
- Who knows but that, in order to please Madame de Villefort and my father, he may not persecute me by every means in his power?†
Chpt 57-58persecute = treat very badly and unfairly
- I have none—nor have I ever possessed any; but really we have talked long enough of money, count, we are like two stockbrokers; have you heard how fate is persecuting the poor Villeforts?†
Chpt 75-76persecuting = treating very badly and unfairly
- The most dreadful misfortunes, the most frightful sufferings, the abandonment of all those who loved me, the persecution of those who did not know me, formed the trials of my youth; when suddenly, from captivity, solitude, misery, I was restored to light and liberty, and became the possessor of a fortune so brilliant, so unbounded, so unheard-of, that I must have been blind not to be conscious that God had endowed me with it to work out his own great designs.†
Chpt 111-112persecution = very bad and unfair treatment
- Worse than that, she was faithless, and had married one of the persecutors of her betrothed.†
Chpt 113-114
Definitions:
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(1)
(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)