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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən/ [General-American], /ˌpɜːsəˈkjuːʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-persecution.ogg [US] Forms: persecutions [plural]
Etymology: Equivalent to persecute + -ion. From Middle English persecucioun, from Old French persecucion, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”). Displaced native Old English ēhtnes. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sekʷ-|id=follow}}, {{suffix|en|persecute|ion}} persecute + -ion, {{inh|en|enm|persecucioun}} Middle English persecucioun, {{der|en|fro|persecucion}} Old French persecucion, {{der|en|EL.|persecūtio||persecution; chase, pursuit}} Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), {{der|en|la|persequor||follow up, pursue}} Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), {{prefix|la|per|sequor|nocat=1|t1=through|t2=follow}} per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”), {{ncog|ang|ēhtnes}} Old English ēhtnes Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} persecution (countable and uncountable, plural persecutions)
  1. The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: persecution complex Translations (the act of persecuting): διωγμός (diōgmós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), اِضْطِهَاد (iḍṭihād) [masculine] (Arabic), հալածանք (halacankʻ) (Armenian), porsécucion [feminine] (Bourguignon), преследване (presledvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), гонение (gonenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), persecució [feminine] (Catalan), چەوساندنەوە (çewsandnewe) (Central Kurdish), 迫害 (pòhài) (Chinese Mandarin), perzekuce [feminine] (Czech), forfølgelse [common-gender] (Danish), vervolging [feminine] (Dutch), persekutado (Esperanto), vainoaminen (Finnish), vaino (Finnish), sorto (Finnish), persécution [feminine] (French), დევნა (devna) (Georgian), Verfolgung [feminine] (German), Schikane [feminine] (German), Drangsalierung [feminine] (German), Plage [feminine] (German), Belästigung [feminine] (German), 𐍅𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹 (wrēkei) [feminine] (Gothic), 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (wraka) [feminine] (Gothic), καταδίωξη (katadíoxi) [feminine] (Greek), δίωξη (díoxi) [feminine] (Greek), רדיפה (redifá) [feminine] (Hebrew), üldözés (Hungarian), üldöztetés (Hungarian), géarleanúint [feminine] (Irish), persecuzione [feminine] (Italian), 迫害 (hakugai) (alt: はくがい) (Japanese), 박해 (bakhae) (alt: 迫害) (Korean), afrision [feminine] (Ladino), afriisyon [feminine] (Ladino), Verfollegung [feminine] (Luxembourgish), forfølgelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ēhtnes [feminine] (Old English), آزار (âzâr) (Persian), Forcht [feminine] (Plautdietsch), prześladowanie [neuter] (Polish), perseguição [feminine] (Portuguese), persecutare [feminine] (Romanian), пресле́дование (preslédovanije) [neuter] (Russian), гоне́ние (gonénije) [neuter] (Russian), тра́вля (trávlja) [feminine] (Russian), напа́дки (napádki) [masculine, plural] (Russian), progon [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), proganjanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), persecución [feminine] (Spanish), förföljelse [common-gender] (Swedish), zulüm (Turkish), sự khủng bố (Vietnamese)

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          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
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          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "çewsandnewe",
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          "word": "چەوساندنەوە"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "âzâr",
          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
          "word": "آزار"
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          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
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          "word": "prześladowanie"
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          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "preslédovanije",
          "sense": "the act of persecuting",
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          "word": "пресле́дование"
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  "hyphenation": [
    "per‧se‧cu‧tion"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old French",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sekʷ- (follow)",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ion",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 January 1, “The Practices of Wolf Persecution, Protection, and Restoration in Canada and the United States”, in BioScience, Oxford University Press",
          "text": "During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were subject to persecution and were extirpated from large areas of their original range. With increased environmental awareness in the 1970s, attitudes toward wolves began to change.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persecuting",
          "persecute"
        ],
        [
          "specific",
          "specific"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌpɜːsəˈkjuːʃən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-persecution.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-us-persecution.ogg/En-us-persecution.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-us-persecution.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "iḍṭihād",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "اِضْطِهَاد"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "halacankʻ",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "հալածանք"
    },
    {
      "code": "roa-brg",
      "lang": "Bourguignon",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "porsécucion"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "presledvane",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "преследване"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gonenie",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "гонение"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persecució"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pòhài",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "迫害"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perzekuce"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "forfølgelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vervolging"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "persekutado"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "vainoaminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "vaino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "sorto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persécution"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "devna",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "დევნა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Verfolgung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schikane"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Drangsalierung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Plage"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Belästigung"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "wrēkei",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐍅𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "wraka",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katadíoxi",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "καταδίωξη"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "díoxi",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "δίωξη"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "diōgmós",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "διωγμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "redifá",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "רדיפה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "üldözés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "üldöztetés"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "géarleanúint"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persecuzione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はくがい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hakugai",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "迫害"
    },
    {
      "alt": "迫害",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bakhae",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "박해"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "çewsandnewe",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "چەوساندنەوە"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afrision"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afriisyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Verfollegung"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "forfølgelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ēhtnes"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "âzâr",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "آزار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Forcht"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "prześladowanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perseguição"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persecutare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "preslédovanije",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "пресле́дование"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gonénije",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "гоне́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trávlja",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тра́вля"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napádki",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "напа́дки"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "progon"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "proganjanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "persecución"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "förföljelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "zulüm"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the act of persecuting",
      "word": "sự khủng bố"
    }
  ],
  "word": "persecution"
}

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