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Grand Inquisitor

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Noun1.Grand InquisitorGrand Inquisitor - director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal)
Portugal, Portuguese Republic - a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)
Espana, Kingdom of Spain, Spain - a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power
Inquisitor - an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition
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But Dom Joseph Warrilow was no Grand Inquisitor, and the elfish monk with knobby knees and a giant heart offered the juvenile offender a heaping serving of God's mercy and love, telling him only to "sin no more.
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In the Grand Inquisitor chapter of his brilliant study, Dostoevsky, he writes: "It is noteworthy that the extremely powerful vindication of Christ [which is what the Legend is] should be put into the mouth of the atheist Ivan Karamazov.
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Better a grand inquisitor, one might say, than a petty administrator.
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