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persecutory

/ ˈpɜːsɪˌkjuːtərɪ /

adjective

  1. involving or characteristic of persecution


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The paranoiac is now apt to enter fully upon the second or persecutory stage of his mental disorder.

After the persecutory stage in paranoia, comes the third, or so-called expansive period of the disease.

Indeed, one frequently asks himself whether their persecutory ideas deserve to be endowed with the value of actual delusions.

This, the second or persecutory stage of delusional insanity, may persist through life.

Perhaps it was a trace of this persecutory religion in her that made Dan accept his present office.

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