persecution

Preposition: of

• believer: They challenge the complacency of those who are indifferent to the persecution of believers.

Converse of object

• flee: You can't turn away a genuine refugee fleeing persecution.
• escape: They are escaping persecution, death or devastation in their home country.
• suffer: Did they too suffer any persecution from the passing soldiers?
• face: Facing Nazi persecution, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in the attic of the building where Otto has had his business.

Adjective modifier

• Nazi: Facing Nazi persecution, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in the attic of the building where Otto has had his business.
• religious: They came in the 16th century escaping religious persecution.
• relentless: Relentless persecution by gamekeepers up until the late 1930's resulted in extermination everywhere except for a small population in north Wales.
• non-state: Thus Britain recognizes as refugees people fleeing non-state persecution - such as women escaping forced marriages - while Germany does not.
• fierce: What do you say to a church that has had to face sustained pressure from fierce persecution?
• cruel: That very day the church in Jerusalem began to suffer cruel persecution.

Modifies a noun

• mania: Persecution manias have infected all religions and all of them will want to use the law against incitement to religious hatred.

Noun used with modifier

• witchcraft: Aberdeen Town Council had its own shameful record of witchcraft persecutions.
• badger: We are working to stamp out all forms of badger persecution.
• witch: Much Pagan lore was hidden in these ditties during the years of witch persecutions.