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auto-da-fe

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n.1.A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.
2.An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.
3.A session of the court of Inquisition.
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Noun1.auto-da-fe - the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
burning at the stake, burning - execution by fire
Espana, Kingdom of Spain, Spain - a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power
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auto-da-fe auto-da-fé [ˈɔːtəʊdɑːˈfeɪ] N (autos-da-fe (pl)) → auto m de fe


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That's why the Catholic Church has survived the Auto-da-Fe, the Crusades, the Reformation, the Medici popes, and the good-old-boys network--and will survive until the end of time.
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A refugee from the Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Esther Marchadi comes aboard the Santa Maria disguised as a Christian ship's boy, Pedro, and finds her adjustment to the ordinarily harsh shipboard life complicated by nightmare memories of the Inquisition's execution of her father by auto-da-fe and her own constant fear of exposure as a Jew.
Freedom beyond the Sea. (Fiction) by Burkam, Anita L. / The Horn Book Magazine
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