spanish inquisition in English

noun
1
an ecclesiastical court established in Roman Catholic Spain in 1478 and directed originally against converts from Judaism and Islam but later also against Protestants. It operated with great severity until suppressed in the early 19th century.

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1. What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?

2. During the Spanish Inquisition many were forced to convert to Catholicism

3. The Spanish Inquisition charged him with sinning against God and man.

4. The burning of witches, the Spanish Inquisition, the slaughter of pagan tribes and so on.

5. Or that he might have been a Jew whose parents converted to escape the Spanish Inquisition.

6. The Spanish Inquisition is often cited in popular literature and history as an example of religious intolerance and repression.

7. As for his sworn enemies, the Spanish Inquisition were experts in the notorious interrogation technique of waterboarding (referred to as toca).

8. The grand inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition spouts the loftiest of motives. The Salem witchcraft trials were conducted for the public good.

9. The only thing outside their walled garden is... (wait for it...) "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!, uh, I mean,[sentence dictionary] JAILBREAK!!!"

10. There are actually records of convicts in Spain purposely blaspheming so that they could be transferred to the prisons of the Spanish Inquisition.

11. This Passover is gonna get its own Spanish inquisition. So Passover is a holiday that celebrates The Jewish people's flight from slavery to freedom.

12. Neither the raging sea nor the attacks of the Spanish Inquisition prevented an improved and amplified version of the Complutensian Polyglot from resurfacing in 1572 in the form of the Royal Bible.

13. To enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish Inquisition; [it is] a law under which no Englishman would wish to live for an hour.