Crossword-Solution: TORQUEMADA
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| Cruel inquisitor | 1 answer |
| Grand Inquisitor | 1 answer |
| Inquisitor whose name now means persecutor | 1 answer |
| Revolutionary force almost mad at infamous Spanish torturer (10) | 1 answer |
| persecutor | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TORQUEMADA (5)
The spirit, however, of the writers of the _Encyclopédie_ is to be preferred to that of _Torquemada and Moncada_, and however deeply we may lament the many grievous omissions in the law of Carlos Tercero (for no provision was made for the spiritual instruction of the Gitános), we prefer it in all points to that of Philip the Third, and to the law passed during the reign of that unhappy victim of monkish fraud, perfidy, and poison, Charles the Second.
Queen Mary was a maniac; but the successor of Torquemada was the incarnation of cruelty pure and simple, and I have a mind to let my counterfeit presentment of him stand on its head for the rest of its natural life.
Nero, Caligula, Calvin, Alva, Napoleon, Torquemada--all these monsters and portents, and a thousand such blood-bespattered figures are growing whiter as they grow fainter.
Chesterton, a reactionary Torquemada whose one gloomy pleasure was in the defence of orthodoxy and the pursuit of heretics, long calculated and at last launched a denunciation of a brilliant leader of the New Theology which he hated with all the furnace of his fanatic soul.
How do I know which of us is right? Torquemada--Calvin," she went on, without giving Joan the chance of a reply.
Quotes with TORQUEMADA (3)
It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their ai…
I swear. Tell someone you're a vampire or a werewolf and they think it's sexy. Tell someone you're a witch and they go from zero to Torquemada in three seconds flat.
That was the problem with modern day witches , thought Corso : they didn't have any secrets . Everything was out in the open , you could read all about them in any Who's Who or gossip column . Baronesses or not , they had become predictable , vulgar . Torquemada would have been bored to death by it all .
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1979–2009).