A small hiding-place at Coughton Court, Warwickshire, brought to light a bundle of priest's clothes, hidden there in the days of religious persecution.
A tradition in the neighbourhood says that the great fish-pond near the site of the old house was dug by a priest and his servant in the days of religious persecution, constituting their daily occupation for twelve years!
Would not this be the inauguration of religious persecution?
The Government would be in fact a theocracy and would resort for its preservation to one of the old forms of religious persecution.
How entirely this is verified by experience, we may see in studying the history of religious persecution.
It is this which is the real curse of religious persecution.
He was not carrying on religious persecution, and no resisting spirit on that ground had manifested itself at all.
The Author's sentiments on the character of religious persecutionin general, and of the persecuting spirit of the church of Rome in particular, need not be disguised.
The pedigree of religious persecution is thus clear.
We may take, first of all, the familiar illustration of religious persecution, as exemplified in the quarrels of Catholics and Protestants.
With the social consequences of religious persecution, and particularly of Christian persecution, I have dealt elsewhere, and there is no need to repeat the story here.
The prisons were all crowded with the victims of religious persecution, and bigoted inquisitors had only to prepare their fagots and stakes.
The spirit of religious persecution, which inflamed the Roman Church to punish all dissenters from the doctrine and abuses she promulgated, can never be questioned.
I have used many abusive terms about the thing, calling it Puritanism, or superciliousness, or aristocracy; but I have not seen and stated the quite simple objection to philanthropy; which is that it is religious persecution.
That is the very definition of religious persecution.
The thing is religious persecution because it is not based on the existing religion of the democracy.
There has been such a change in the conditions of man that, at the present time, the devil is in favor of slavery, polygamy, religious persecution, and wars of conquest.
Had all men so believed there never could have been religious persecution--the Inquisition could not have been built, and the idea of eternal pain never could have polluted the human heart.
Do you prove the truth of these fine words, this honey of Trebizond, by the victims of religious persecution?
It was not induced, like that of Judas Maccabæus, by religious persecution; the Romans allowed the Jews the free exercise of their religion, as they allowed it to all other nations.
I do not know; but let the gentleman read the history of religious persecution.
In proportion as mankind has become enlightened, the idea of religious persecution, under any circumstances, has been almost universally exploded by all good and thinking men.
I cannot conceive what mode of oppression in civil life, or what mode of religious persecution, may not come within the methods of preserving an ascendency.
The execution of Cuthbert Mayne was far from being purposed as the opening of a religious persecution.
If Elizabeth was a persecutor, she was the first English ruler who felt the charge of religious persecution to be a stigma on her rule.
There was in fact no religious persecution, and in the many complaints of Shane O'Neill we find no mention of a religious grievance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious persecution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
