Inquisitions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INQUISITIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• INQUISITION, the act of inquiring
• a judicial or official inquiry.
• a period of prolonged and intensive questioning
• an ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IXc.1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was revived to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of inquiring; examination

Words related to INQUISITIONS

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How to use INQUISITIONS in a sentence

• Attempts were of course made to restrain multiplication by law, but this brought about inquisitions so utterly intolerable that human nature revolted against them.
• It was this Pope who instituted auricular confession, and laid the foundation of a more dreadful spiritual despotism in the form of inquisitions.
• It has been tried for centuries and has yielded only Star Chambers and Spanish Inquisitions.
• Eleven inquisitions were held, eleven inquiries were made, eleven verdicts were returned.
• The papal Inquisition continued the tyranny, and eventually superseded the old episcopal inquisitions.
• Now we suddenly discover, that, in the absence of Inquisitions, and other unpleasant Old-World tortures, our school-houses have taken their place.

Similar words containing QUISITION without suffix s and without prefix in

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