112 adjectives to describe persecutions

Religious persecution ran high, and the clergy were extremely jealous of the propagation of the Scriptures among the people.

We may remark that amid all the melancholy accompaniments of the time there are no human sacrifices, such as those offered up at Carthage during pestilence to appease the anger of the godsthere are no cruel persecutions against imaginary authors of the disease, such as those against the Untori (anointers of doors) in the plague of Milan in 1630.

"It means," cried Jetson passionately, "that I'm not going to stand any more of this petty persecution.

War was associated with inhuman atrocities, and the acceptance of the reformed faith was followed by bitter and heartless persecution.

165 JOSEPHUS (The noble-minded Judas Maccabaeus was the hero of Jewish independence the deliverer of Judea and Judaism during the bloody persecutions of the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, in the second century B.C.

That in itself did not trouble me much since I had no intention of marrying Painswick; still the man's relentless persecution was getting more than I could bear.

Directly, it is associated with a period of fierce persecution.

I am convinced that the hostile attitude, and almost persecution, on the part of the Entente rather helped the Bolshevik government, whose claims to discredit were already so numerous that it was not necessary to nullify it by an unjust and evident persecution.

[MN 1231.] yet Henry, in a sudden caprice, threw off this faithful minister, and exposed him to the violent persecutions of his enemies.

The last great act of Diocletianone of the ablest and most warlike of the emperorswas an unrelenting and desperate persecution of the Christians, whose religion had been steadily gaining ground for two centuries, in spite of martyrdoms and anathemas; and this was so severe and universal that it seemed to be successful.

He joined in the sanguinary persecution of the Albigenses.]

The excitement was great, and no little persecution and pecuniary loss ensued to the new converts.

Henceforth his life is embittered by constant persecution.

His reign was signalized for an imperial persecution, in which Justin at Rome, Polycarp at Smyrna, and Ponthinus at Lyons, suffered martyrdom.

They hope, by thus taking up the occupation and assuming the appearance of farmers, to escape farther persecution; and this policy may be available to those who have little to lose: but property is now a more dangerous distinction than birth, and whoever possesses it, will always be considered as the enemies of the republic, and treated accordingly.

The enemies of the Calvinists resorted to intrigues and assassinations; they began a furious persecution, as they held in their hands the chief political power.

Systematic persecution by open force or by law has been attempted and defeated ages ago, and will hardly be tried again.

Another inscription, which preserves the name of one of those who suffered in the most severe persecution to which the ancient Church was exposed, and which, if genuine, is, so far as known, the only monument of the kind, is marked by the same simplicity of style: LANNVS XPI MA RTIR HC*[Hic?]

That the law has not been universally enforced, proves only that the people of Ohio are less profligate than their legislatorsthat it has remained in the statute book for thirty-two years, proves the depraved state of public opinion and the horrible persecution to which the colored people are legally exposed.

Yet nothing could melt the iron heart of Napoleon, and he continued his implacable persecution of its author, so that she was obliged to continue her travels, though travelling like a princess.

Brahminism has never sought to win proselytes; the annals of ancient India record none of those atrocious persecutions which stained mediaeval Christianity.

The family were away more than six months, and when they returned they were in the deepest state of dejection, for King James had been banished, the Prince of Orange was on the throne, and the direst persecutions of those of the Catholic faith were apprehended by my lady, who said that she did not believe there was a word of truth in the promises of toleration that Dutch monster made, or a single word the perjured wretch said.

Think of the fanaticism, the endless persecutions, the religious wars, that sanguinary frenzy of which the ancients had no conception!

Yet this was not all: they were objects of the meanest and most cruel persecution.

Their whole moral philosophy, if we may believe Arnauld and Pascal, was a tissue of casuistry; truth was obscured in order to secure popularity; even the most diabolical persecution was justified if heretics stood in the way.

112 adjectives to describe  persecutions