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Antonyms for persecute
ˈpɜr sɪˌkyutper·se·cute
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term persecute.
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persecuteverb
persecuteverb
To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death for one's race, sexual identity, adherence to a particular religious creed, or mode of worship.
Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. – Matt. 5:44.
persecuteverb
To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
persecute
Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.
Antonyms:
applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicateSynonyms:
abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong
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How to use persecute in a sentence?
The reason China has such a focus is they're kind of exploring the limits of new systems of how President Trump persecute a religious minority. But we've got persecution in 80 % of the global population.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FAITH STORIES Jehovahs Witnesses are Christians, too, so I dont quite understand why persecute Jehovahs Witnesses.
A lot of these governments don't care about human rights, they are unelected governments that persecute their citizens in their countries. There is no real rule of law and democracy when it comes to deportations of Uyghurs.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
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#148 | support | |
#1528 | consider | |
#1701 | respect | |
#1727 | benefit | |
#2157 | protect | |
#3433 | encourage | |
#3876 | regard | |
#4855 | tend | |
#5455 | favor | |
#6486 | shield | |
#6760 | praise | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#19974 | conserve | |
#22440 | uphold | |
#25495 | cherish | |
#27690 | applaud | |
#54651 | abet | |
#65039 | persecute | |
#70221 | laud | |
#79099 | extol | |
#80199 | vindicate | |
#208288 | inspirit | |
#323815 | eulogize |
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