Sample Sentences for
inquisition
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    The Inquisition would have imprisoned Goya were it not for the intervention of the King.
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    The Inquisition had its headquarters there, you know.  (source)
    Inquisition = harsh and unfair historical religious investigations
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    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.  (source)
    Inquisition = former investigations of the Roman Catholic Church undertaken to discover and suppress heresy
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    I just lay there, almost catatonic, as my mother hovered, perpetually near, breaking the silence every few minutes with a question-phrased-as-a-statement. Each day is a little better? You're feeling okay? You're improving? The inquisition of declarations.  (source)
    inquisition = investigation or questioning
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    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.  (source)
    inquisitions = harsh questioning
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    At the end of autumn, when the family had calmed down about Father Restrepo, who was forced to mitigate his inquisitional behavior after the bishop had personally warned him to leave little Clara del Valle alone, and when they had all resigned themselves to the fact that Uncle Marcos was truly dead, Severo's political designs began to take shape.†  (source)
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    It felt like an inquisition.  (source)
    inquisition = harsh investigation
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    The ancient Surveyor—being little molested, I suppose, at that early day with business pertaining to his office—seems to have devoted some of his many leisure hours to researches as a local antiquarian, and other inquisitions of a similar nature.†  (source)
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    O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuit!†  (source)
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    The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.  (source)
    Inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
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    He would be Death, or Death 's errand-runner, a hollow-eyed technician from the plague era, from the era of inquisitions, endless wars, of bedlams and leprosariums.†  (source)
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    It sounds like something out of a history book — the Inquisition, or something.  (source)
    Inquisition = harsh and unfair historical religious investigations
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    I'll tell you, inquisitions haven't worked out well for my people in the past.†  (source)
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