Persecution vs Assassinated - What's the difference?
persecution | assassinated |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jan Sapp)
, title=Race Finished
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(assassinate)
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
* , II.29:
(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
* Dryden
* Milton
(obsolete) Assassination, murder.
(obsolete) An assassin.
* , vol.1, III.i.2:
As a noun persecution
is persecution.As a verb assassinated is
(assassinate).persecution
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=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?}}
assassinated
English
Verb
(head)assassinate
English
Verb
- The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
- Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
- Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.
Noun
(en noun)- Yet again, many of them desperate hairbrains, rash, careless, fit to be assassinates , as being void of all fear and sorrow […].
See also
*Wikipedia article on Assassins* murder * regicide ----