Definition of Persecute

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Persecute

To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.

To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

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Persecute Quotations

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
Julius Streicher

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Max Beckmann

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
Alva Myrdal

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
Antonia Fraser

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
Joseph McCabe

Persecute Translations

persecute in Dutch is najagen, vervolgen, achtervolgen
persecute in French is poursuivre
persecute in German is verfolgen, schikanieren

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