persecutory
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Ms. Aviv writes of a psychotic mother with persecutory delusions who thinks her eldest daughter is in league with a scheming professor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But having solved the mystery of her mother, Jo chooses to return to her responsibilities in the terrestrial, persecutory world where magic is a curse word.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Are there no more people who experience persecutory or grandiose delusions, hallucinations, and at times excessive religiosity, hostility and aggression?
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2022
Experts determined that he had "delusional disorder of the persecutory type" after examining him.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2018
On this basis he developed various persecutory ideas, exclusively against those who had anything to do with his care and safe-keeping.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
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