Sequent vs Persecute - What's the difference?
sequent | persecute |
(obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
*1860 , ,
*:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
*:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
*:Each night since first the world was made hath had
*:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
*c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
*:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
*1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
*:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
*c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
*:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.
Something that follows in a given sequence.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
(logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
(obsolete) A follower.
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.
To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
As an adjective sequent
is (obsolete) that comes after in time or order; subsequent.As a noun sequent
is something that follows in a given sequence.As a verb persecute is
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(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
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Verb
(persecut)- "Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." – Matt. 5:44.
