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Definition
common noun: questioning or investigation — often implying harsh questioningor:
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
- 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
- ...even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- It's the likes of you that kept the inquisition in business.Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys
- In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition.George Orwell -- 1984
- 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
- 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
- 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
inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
inquisition = former investigations of the Roman Catholic Church undertaken to discover and suppress heresy
inquisition = historical tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church that was created to discover and suppress heresy
inquisition = investigations and trials instigated by the Roman Catholic Church to discover and suppress heresy
inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
inquisition = an investigation to discover and suppress heresy against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
inquisitions = harsh questioning
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