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    spanish inquisition

    spanish inquisition - Dictionary definition and meaning for word spanish inquisition

    Definition
    (noun) an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries)
    Example Sentence
    • the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power
    • Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition

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