persecution

CEFRC1

/ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    Cruel or unfair treatment because of beliefs or identity.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution.

Examples

  • Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

  • Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

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In context

  • Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.

  • […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]

  • I see this not as persecution, but a learning chance to grow.

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Origin

noun

Equivalent to persecute + -ion. From Middle English persecucioun, from Old French persecucion, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”). Displaced native Old English ēhtnes.