complex
Webster Dictionary
composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea
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confessor
(ənˈfɛs ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a male saint who suffered persecution but not martyrdom.
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parsee
(ˈpɑr si, pɑrˈsi)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an Indian Zoroastrian whose ancestors fled Muslim persecution in Persia in the 7th and 8th centuries.
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violantin
Webster Dictionary
a complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid
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mandelbrot set
(Mandelbrot set)
Princeton's WordNet
a set of complex numbers that has a highly convoluted fractal boundary when plotted; the set of all points in the complex plane that are bounded under a certain mathematical iteration
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insectation
Webster Dictionary
the act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution
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confessorship
Webster Dictionary
the act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith
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pogrom
(pogrom)
Princeton's WordNet
organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
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concentration camp
(ˌkɒn sənˈtreɪ ʃən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a guarded compound for the confinement of political prisoners, minorities, etc., esp. those established by the Nazis for the internment and persecution of prisoners.
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paranoia
(paranoia)
Princeton's WordNet
a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
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dragonnade
Webster Dictionary
the severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade
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converso
(Converso)
Princeton's WordNet
(medieval Spain and Portugal) a Jew or Moor who professed to convert to Christianity in order to avoid persecution or expulsion
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hijra
(ˈhɪdʒ rə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the journey of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution a .d . 622: regarded as the beginning of the Muslim Era.
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taborite
Webster Dictionary
one of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles
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marrano
(Marrano)
Princeton's WordNet
(medieval Spain and Portugal) a disparaging term for a Jew who converted to Christianity in order to avoid persecution but continued to practice their religion secretly
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refugee
Webster Dictionary
especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes
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beguard
Webster Dictionary
one of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins
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decius
(Decius)
Princeton's WordNet
Emperor of Rome who was proclaimed emperor against his will; his reign was notable for his severe persecution of Christians (201-251)
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confessor
Webster Dictionary
one who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith
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gunpowder plot
(Gunpowder Plot)
Princeton's WordNet
a conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes
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arise
Webster Dictionary
to spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise
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fuchs
(Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs)
Princeton's WordNet
British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
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emil klaus julius fuchs
(Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs)
Princeton's WordNet
British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
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klaus fuchs
(Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs)
Princeton's WordNet
British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
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conventicle
Webster Dictionary
an assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics
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constantine i
(Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus)
Princeton's WordNet
Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
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constantine the great
(Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus)
Princeton's WordNet
Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
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constantine
(Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus)
Princeton's WordNet
Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
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waldenses
Webster Dictionary
a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles
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antelucan
Webster Dictionary
held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning
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