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very bad and unfair treatment of others — usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- But the Puritans liked religious freedom so much they kept it all to themselves—often persecuting people who didn't believe what they did.
There are no more uses of "persecution" in Change of Heart by Picoult.
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