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- English Word Persecuted Definition of Persecute
- English Word Persecuting Definition of Persecute
- English Word Persecution Definition The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
- English Word Persecution Definition The state or condition of being persecuted.
- English Word Persecution Definition A carrying on; prosecution.
- English Word Persecutor Definition One who persecutes, or harasses.
- English Word Persecutrix Definition A woman who persecutes.
- English Word Perseid Definition One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.
- English Word Perseus Definition A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
- English Word Perseus Definition A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.
- English Word Persever Definition To persevere.
- English Word Perseverance Definition The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
- English Word Perseverance Definition Discrimination.
- English Word Perseverance Definition Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism.
- English Word Perseverant Definition Persevering.
- English Word Persevere Definition To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.
- English Word Persevered Definition of Persevere
- English Word Persevering Definition of Persevere
- English Word Persevering Definition Characterized by perseverance; persistent.
- English Word Persian Definition Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
- English Word Persian Definition A native or inhabitant of Persia.
- English Word Persian Definition The language spoken in Persia.
- English Word Persian Definition A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.
- English Word Persian Definition See Persian columns, under Persian, a.
- English Word Persic Definition Of or relating to Persia.
- English Word Persic Definition The Persian language.
- English Word Persicaria Definition See Lady's thumb.
- English Word Persicot Definition A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.
- English Word Persiflage Definition Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
- English Word Persifleur Definition One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz.