The Only Use of
inquisition
in
The Great Gatsby
- 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.
p. 176.5inquisitions = harsh questioning
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
or:
proper noun: a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (or their investigations) created to discover and suppress heresy