The Only Use
inquisition
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)
- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(inquisition) intense or harsh questioning or investigation; more specifically, a church court (especially in Roman Catholic history) set up to find and punish heresy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)