insecution
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin insecutio, from insequi past participle insecutus. See ensue.
Noun[edit]
insecution (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A following after; close pursuit.
- [1611?], Homer, “The Eleventh Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC:
- Amongst the Greeks and with what ruth the insecution grew,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “insecution”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)