persecution
See also: persécution
English
Etymology
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Equivalent to persecute + -ion, Borrowed from Old French persecucion [1], from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: per‧se‧cu‧tion
Noun
persecution (countable and uncountable, plural persecutions)
- The act of persecuting.
- A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.
- 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
Translations
the act of persecuting
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a program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “persecution”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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