Spanish Inquisition

noun

1. the Inquisition in Spain, under state control from 1480 to 1834, marked by the extreme severity and cruelty of its proceedings in the 16th century.

Spanish Inquisition

noun

1. the institution that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain, chiefly by the persecution of Jews and Muslims, esp from the 15th to 17th centuries See also Inquisition

Spanish Inquisition

1. The church court of the Inquisition , as established in Spain in the late fifteenth century. ( See also Tomás de Torquemada (see also Torquemada ).)

Example Sentences

In a meeting at the Vatican, Netanyahu and the pontiff talk Syria and Iran and Francis gets a book on the Spanish Inquisition.

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It was in Europe, we have to remember, that the Spanish Inquisition took place, as did the Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide.

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This information on Hernando Alonso comes from the trial records of the Spanish Inquisition.

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There was talk of the Spanish Inquisition, but little or no actual violence is recorded to have been done.

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The tribunal soon wanted little more than the name and the Dominicans to resemble in every point the Spanish Inquisition.

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The Recorder, among the rest, commended the Spanish Inquisition, saying it would never be well till we had something like it.

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There were the doings of the Spanish Inquisition in respect of English sailors.

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In this she had little to learn either from a Dante, or the Spanish Inquisition.

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