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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
persecute .
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Examples
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And he who persecuteth well learneth readily to be OBSEQUENT — when once he is — put behind!
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He stopped, blushed, then continued low and sadly: 'Ah, my malady persecuteth me again, and my mind wandereth.
Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967
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Thus now God persecuteth him, punisheth him with mental and external sufferings, taketh from him all his goods and greed; He killeth him entirely, and draweth all away from him which is deadly and not of God; thus is earthly attraction crushed and conquered by God.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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'Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou me,' was the strange inquiry.
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And he who persecuteth well learneth readily to be obsequent-when once he is-put behind!
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"He that putteth his hands to the plow, and then looketh back, is not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven;" "If ye were of the world, then the world would love its own, but because I have chosen you out of the world, the world persecuteth you;" "Ye, and all who live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution, while evil men and seducers wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."
The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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And he who persecuteth well learneth readily to be OBSEQUENT -- when once he is -- put behind!
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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'Tis I know not what other than a flea that persecuteth me: '
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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'Tis I know not what other than a flea that persecuteth me: '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'Tis I know not what other than a flea that persecuteth me: '
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868
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