persecution

• All the agitation and quasi-persecution was a loosening of the tendrils, and a preparation for transplanting. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
• I can express my opinions without persecution which is what I feel like people are doing ... being persecuted for their opinions. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
• So blind and cruel is religious intolerance But Providence ordered that the religious persecution, which is attributed to Mary, but which, in strict justice, should be ascribed to her counsellors and ministers, should prepare the way for a popular and a spiritual movement in the subsequent reign. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• [658] Such noble and influential petitioners could not be dismissed--especially at a time when their assistance was indispensable--without a gracious reply;[659] and, in order that the German princes might not have occasion to accuse Henry of too flagrant bad faith, the persecution was allowed for a short time to abate Sidenote: Psalm-singing on the Pré aux Clercs An incident of an apparently trivial character, which happened at Paris not long after, proved very clearly that the severities inflicted on some of those connected with the meeting in the Rue St. Jacques had utterly failed of accomplishing their object. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• There were graves which in later ages had been dug in confusion, one above the other, by persons wishing to lie as near as possible to the remains of the apostle; but those of the time of the persecution were arranged in parallel lines,[73] and consisted of plain marble coffins bearing no name, and containing one or two bodies, which were dressed like mummies, with bands of darkish linen wound about the body and head. —  Pagan and Christian Rome

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