persecutory

/ ˈpɜːsɪˌkjuːtərɪ /

adjective

1. involving or characteristic of persecution

Example Sentences

Judge Freya Newbery said he was at the time an "undiagnosed schizophrenic" who held "paranoid and persecutory delusions".

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This is again a classic God complex driven by a persecutory delusion.

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As Stuart Stevenson, a lecturer at the University of East London, wrote in 2021, “A lynch mob gives its members a sense of intoxicating power; a promise of safety from the most persecutory and primitive anxieties.”

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According to experts who testified and Dear’s lawyers, Dear has persecutory delusions that cause him to believe that the FBI is following him because he called a radio show in 1993 to criticize the agency over the law enforcement siege against the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

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The Crown accepted the plea having heard evidence from two psychiatrists that Harrison was suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning at the time of the killing and had "persecutory delusional beliefs".

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