persecutory
Britishadjective
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Judge Freya Newbery said he was at the time an "undiagnosed schizophrenic" who held "paranoid and persecutory delusions".
From BBC
This is again a classic God complex driven by a persecutory delusion.
From Salon
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.”
From Seattle Times
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.
From Seattle Times
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".
From BBC
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