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very bad and unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- 'Being reviled we bless; being persecuted we suffer it; being defamed we entreat; we are made as the filth of the world, and as the offscouring of all things unto this day.'4 — The Consequence (20% in)
- At this moment he was lying ill of fever in the clay lands near Curitiba in Brazil, having been drenched with thunder-storms and persecuted by other hardships, in common with all the English farmers and farm-labourers who, just at this time, were deluded into going thither by the promises of the Brazilian Government, and by the baseless assumption that those frames which, ploughing and sowing on English uplands, had resisted all the weathers to whose moods they had been born, could...5 — The Woman Pays (61% in)
There are no more uses of "persecution" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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