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"Inquisition" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition and took shelter in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century.
The Holy Inquisition started with Pope Lucius III.
Women were the ones who suffered the most during the Inquisition.
In 1632, he published a book that stated, among other things, that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct. Galileo was once again called before the Inquisition and this time was found guilty of heresy.
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and an important figure in the initial development of the modern sciences. His discoveries contradicted the teachings of the Catholic Church, and Galileo was put on trial for heresy by the Inquisition.
Why the inquisition?
The Inquisition is a myth.
Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Cancel culture has become today's Inquisition.
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But as farrefoorth as I coulde learne, through earneſt inquiſition I thoughte in my conſcience the woman was not gilty, all the circumſtances well conſydered.
Let not search and inquisition quail / To bring again these foolish runaways.
The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.
And in their name I shall for neither friend nor foe conceal what the general murmur is ; that if it come to inquisitioning again
We know from history that the Catholic Church has historically murdered, mutilated, castrated, maimed, imprisoned and flogged homosexuals. Catholic atrocities during the Inquisition are well documented and cannot be denied. The Church no longer does those things to homosexuals, but it violates their human rights in other ways.
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