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
This is again a classic God complex driven by a persecutory delusion.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023
While there are several types of delusional disorder, the type that most often shows up in Sell cases is persecutory.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2022
“We know there’s a long tradition of boycotts and sanctions being used against persecutory regimes,” Mr. Cohan said last week.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
The hallucinatory paranoid form consists of fallacious sense perceptions and delusions of a persecutory nature, often substantiated by a strongly hypochondriacal element; in short, a picture which simulates very closely the real paranoid state.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
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