Persecutions

Synonyms

oppression harassment mistreatment manhunt maltreatment victimization ill-usage hounding

Examples

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen. G. K. Chesterton

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. Morris Raphael Cohen

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. Dorothy L. Sayers

The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith. Justin Martyr

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I do not overreach myself, for I too have my part to play with "those whom he has called to himself and predestined" to teach the gospel in the midst of considerable persecutions "as far as the ends of the earth" Saint Patrick