persecutions

The most severe and prolonged of all the persecutions was the last, the so-called persecution under Diocletian.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

One result of the persecutions was the rise of serious disputes, and even schisms, from differences regarding the administration of discipline by the bishops.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

But remembering these facts, and recalling the persecutions of Buddhists by each other, of Christianity by the state, and knowing to-day many earnest, self-sacrificing and persistent Christians, I am convinced that such a judgment is mistaken.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

In stirring words he recalled their persecutions and trials, told them that their long pilgrimage, the weary march by day and lonely vigil by night, were now ended, and their Canaan the great valley which stretched out before them.

Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective 1874

I took care of that; though, but for precautions and my authority as his superior officer, his advances would, no doubt, have been bolder -- in short, persecutions.

The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

Had the other nine so called persecutions been equal to the tenth, that of Diocletian, Donne's assertion here would be extravagant.

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

You guys are pathetic losers that try vicariously to live the lives of the saints but without all the inconveniences such as persecutions, death, running for your lives, mobs, etc.

Standards and the Teachers who Need Them - The Panda's Thumb 2006

There is more in that word 'persecutions' than this, as no doubt {173} you have found.

Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson

Probably half the "persecutions" he complained of had existed solely inside his own fevered brain.

Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

It should be noted, however, when one reads in masonic works of the "persecutions" to which Freemasonry has been subjected, that aggression was not confined only to the one side in the conflict; moreover, that the Freemasons at this period were divided amongst themselves and expressed with regard to opposing groups much the same suspicions that non-Masons expressed with regard to the Order as a whole.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918