Crossword-Solution: MARRANO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Volume 8, Second half, Graetz' History of the Jews.] Marrano..--See Verse xix., Line 7th of "Epistle." The enforced recipients of baptism who remained in Spain formed a peculiar class, outwardly Christians, inwardly Jews.

With equal force it dominated the being of Solomon Molcho, the enthusiastic youth who, at one time a Marrano, on his public return to Judaism proclaimed the speedy regeneration of Israel.

The word Maroon is derived, according to one etymology, from the Spanish word _Marrano_, a wild boar,--these fugitives being all boar-hunters; according to another, from _Marony_, a river separating French and Dutch Guiana, where a colony of them dwelt and still dwells; and by another still, from _Cimarron_, a word meaning untamable, and used alike for apes and runaway slaves.

Burning to punish the Marrano, or apostate Moor, as he called Alexander, Giuliano stirred the king with taunts and menaces until Charles felt he could delay his march no longer.

The word Maroon is derived, according to one etymology, from the Spanish word _Marrano_, a wild-boar,--these fugitives being all boar-hunters,--according to another, from _Marony_, a river separating French and Dutch Guiana, where a colony of them dwelt and still dwells; and by another still, from _Cimarron_, a word meaning untamable, and used alike for apes and runaway slaves.