Sample sentences for INQUISITION

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Definition

common noun: questioning or investigation — often implying harsh questioning

or:

proper noun: a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (or their investigations) created to discover and suppress heresy

What was expected to be a quick confirmation hearing turned into an inquisition.

inquisition = harsh questioning

a general inquisition into his reputation and conduct
In Spain, the Inquisition lasted until 1834; though severe abuses had stopped prior to that.
The Inquisition would have imprisoned Goya were it not for the intervention of the King.
The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.
George Orwell -- 1984

inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church's enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

inquisition = former investigations of the Roman Catholic Church undertaken to discover and suppress heresy

...even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

inquisition = historical tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church that was created to discover and suppress heresy

It's the likes of you that kept the inquisition in business.
Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys

inquisition = investigations and trials instigated by the Roman Catholic Church to discover and suppress heresy

In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition.
George Orwell -- 1984

inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church

Because the Inquisition killed its enemies in the open, and killed them while they were still unrepentant: in fact, it killed them because they were unrepentant.
George Orwell -- 1984

inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church

Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old — even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

inquisitions = harsh questioning

It looked like a drawing of the Inquisition.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
When I was at Portugal, there was held at that time the court of justice of the Inquisition.
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
Let the inquisition rest tonight.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
" "Inquisition," said Isaac.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
'I warned them that the Sahibs will be angry and will make an inquisition and a report to the Rajah.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
The swaying and sonorous Doctor, whom I made to sit swinging his braces over a gas-fire, was to him nothing but an instrument of the inquisition.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
When he had gone, she felt released from an inquisition.
Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
And their inquisition went on for maybe six hours.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

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