Persecuting
[pə:sikju:tɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persecute
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Examples
- I have but one favour to ask: let me alone, instead of persecuting me with all this show of tenderness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When immortal Bunyan makes his picture of the persecuting passions bringing in their verdict of guilty, who pities Faithful? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting--not persecuting, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For Innocent III was one of the great persecuting Popes, an able, grasping, and aggressive man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are Lowlanders of Scotland, following a Covenanting captain up into the hills to hold a meeting out of the reach of persecuting troopers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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