What is another word for persecutions?

Pronunciation: [pˌɜːsɪkjˈuːʃənz] (IPA)

Persecutions are actions that are intended to cause harm, oppression, or discrimination towards individuals or groups of people. There are several synonyms for the word "persecutions" including oppression, tyranny, suppression, discrimination, victimization, maltreatment, and mistreatment. These words describe situations where people are mistreated or taken advantage of because of their race, religion, gender, or other factors. The act of persecuting others can take the form of physical or emotional abuse, social ostracism, or economic disadvantage. It is important to recognize and address these issues in order to create a more just and equitable society.

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Usage examples for Persecutions

The older children have maintained a firm position against the abuse and persecutions of their father toward their mother, but were of too tender age to render her any material assistance.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
Time will not allow me to detail my sufferings and persecutions at that hospital; I will only add, may the Lord forgive Dr. McFarland for the injustice I have suffered at his hands!
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
The Doctor says: "All Mrs. Packard's wrongs, persecutions and sufferings, of every description, are utterly the creation of a diseased imagination."
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

Famous quotes with Persecutions

  • Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
    Morris Raphael Cohen
  • All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
    John Shelby Spong
  • It is always easy to blame the state and the men in uniform. But Islamic terror essentially does not emanate from uniforms and state power, but from a belief system which even the ordinary people have been fed. That is why a lot of Islamic terror never gets recorded by human-rights organizations like Amnesty International. A Christian Pakastani friend complained to me that Amnesty had not spoken out against the religious persecutions in his homeland, even when these are a grim and undeniable reality. The fact is that much of this persecution and discrimination is not ordered by the state (the type of culprit with which Amnesty is familiar), but is a spontaneous attituide among sections of the Muslim population, egged on by nothing except the omnipresent Islamic doctrine.
    Koenraad Elst
  • The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
    G. K. Chesterton

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