All 9 Uses of
persecution
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- There was something about Mrs. Meany's obdurate self-imprisonment that smacked of religious persecution—if not eternal damnation.†
p. 31..1
- I suppose the conversion of St. Paul has a special effect on a convert like me: And how can I not think of Owen—when I read Paul's letter to the Galatians, that part where Paul says, "And I was still not known by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea; they only heard it said, 'He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.'†
p. 87..6
- "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account," Jesus says.†
p. 148..2
- Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.†
p. 148..3
- …Church Nativity When I suggested that his response to their presence in the congregation had been radical and severe, he dismissed me in a fashion he'd perfected— by forgiving me for what I couldn't be expected to know, and what he would never explain to me: that old UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE that the Catholics had perpetrated, and his parents' inability to rise above what amounted to the RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION they had suffered; yet it was my opinion that Owen was persecuting his parents.†
p. 240..0
- …Church Nativity When I suggested that his response to their presence in the congregation had been radical and severe, he dismissed me in a fashion he'd perfected— by forgiving me for what I couldn't be expected to know, and what he would never explain to me: that old UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE that the Catholics had perpetrated, and his parents' inability to rise above what amounted to the RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION they had suffered; yet it was my opinion that Owen was persecuting his parents.†
p. 240..1
- Why they accepted such persecution was a mystery to me.†
p. 240..1 *
- Yet the nuns, in a fury that only religious persecution can account for, would attack us; their pursuit was erratic, their shrieks like the cries of bats surprised by sunlight—Owen and I had no trouble outrunning them.†
p. 275..9
- "THIS UNJUST IMPOSITION ENCOURAGES RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION," said The Voice; Owen saw signs. of anti-Catholicism springing up everywhere.†
p. 307..0
Definition:
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(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs