Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Inquisition
//ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃən//
Synonyms for "inquisition" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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Translations
30 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَحَاكِمُ التَّفْتِيش name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разпит noun (questioning)
- разследване noun (inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 宗教裁判所 name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- 異端裁判所 /异端裁判所 name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Czech
1 entries- inkvizice name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Esperanto
2 entries- enketo noun (inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter)
- inkvizicio noun (inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter)
Finnish
2 entries- inkvisitio name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- inkvisitio name (harsh or rigorous interrogation)
French
1 entries- Inquisition name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
German
3 entries- Glaubensgericht name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- Inquisition name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- Ketzergericht name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Greek
1 entries- Ιερά Εξέταση name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Hungarian
1 entries- inkvizíció name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Japanese
1 entries- 異端審問 name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Korean
1 entries- 이단심문 name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Latin
1 entries- Inquisitio name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Malay
1 entries- Pasitan name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Persian
2 entries- انکیزیسیون name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- تفتیش عقاید name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Polish
2 entries- inkwizycja name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- inkwizycja name (harsh or rigorous interrogation)
Portuguese
1 entries- Inquisição name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Russian
2 entries- инквизи́ция name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
- инквизи́ция name (harsh or rigorous interrogation)
Spanish
1 entries- Inquisición name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Swedish
1 entries- inkvisition name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Turkish
1 entries- engizisyon name (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition and took shelter in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century.
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The Holy Inquisition started with Pope Lucius III.
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Women were the ones who suffered the most during the Inquisition.
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