Maybe they are really the Puritans of our age, a kind of persecutory cult of moral perfectionism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Thinker] Reference

“Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases,”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

But either way, the country is drowning in persecutory theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nation of Conspiracies] Reference

The delusions are usually persecutory, and the patient alleges a conspiracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference

These are all primitive, infantile, and often persecutory, defense mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

But these are the persecutory and the paranoid delusions that -- that he's having.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007] Reference

“The assessment of persecutory ideation,” in D. Freeman, R. Bentall, and P. Garety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat '.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The resulting need for suspicion is a basis for conspiratorial and persecutory delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: APOPHENIA.] Reference

These guys who kill their wives, often they have a persecutory relationship with the victim.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2006] Reference

In present-day clinical language, Wozzeck suffers persecutory paranoia with traces of schizophrenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banishing silence] Reference

And, to go along with what Kris was just saying a moment ago, these persecutory delusions are really delusional.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007] Reference

First, though, I will briefly address the question of the causes underlying the reviewers 'persecutory rhetoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranoid Politics: Shelley and the _Quarterly Review_] Reference

They're arguing that it is persecutory — it is persecution — for them to be jailed for refusal to serve in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  ['People Are Very Disheartened'] Reference

Fini works in a city office and lives in cramped quarters with a persecutory mother and a father invalided out of the army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emperor of Nostalgia] Reference

Indeed, one frequently asks himself whether their persecutory ideas deserve to be endowed with the value of actual delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Delusional Projection occurs when an individual or group have delusions about external reality, usually of a persecutory nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

On this basis he developed various persecutory ideas, exclusively against those who had anything to do with his care and safe-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Since March 13th, 2008 Tibet has been witnessing the protest of its people against the persecutory politics of the Chinese Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closed Tibet => Boycott Beijing 2008] Reference

Dr Freeman believes that the research points to a potential treatment for helping to reduce the risk of developing persecutory thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

He was quite unstable emotionally, very surly and irritable, and soon transferred his persecutory ideas to the officials of this institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Pesante also scores the DOJ as acting as persecutory arm of the AFP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

Delusions can include delusions of grandeur, unprovoked jealousy, persecutory delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The doctor had diagnosed Ong as suffering from 'delusional disorder of a persecutory type'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He may develop compulsive rites to fend off this "bad", unwarranted, persecutory influences.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This is the first time that any scientific research has examined insomnia and persecutory thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

Diocletian, one of the worst of the persecutory Emperors, banished Nicholas and had him imprisoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

• Delusional Projection: Grossly frank delusions about external reality, usually of a persecutory nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the twelfth century, medieval Britain was a persecutory Catholic society, particularly when it came to Jews.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

She did not fit in anywhere and had developed persecutory beliefs, major depressive episodes and obsessive compulsive disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Acoustical hallucinations began; he heard voices from every corner of the room, and on the street the voices took persecutory character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Dr. Freeman believes that the research points to a potential treatment for helping to reduce the risk of developing persecutory thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

More and more cases are now coming to light where men are at the receiving end of the persecutory tactics used by their domineering wives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesman] Reference

Jealous or persecutory feelings or delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Sending him back is cowardly and persecutory. ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 Archives] Reference

They may assume that if someone's got a persecutory delusion, that must mean that they're suffering from paranoia. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [IMT Home] Reference