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auto-da-fe

NOUN
  1. the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)

How To Use auto-da-fe In A Sentence

  • The preacher admits that he broke his promise back in September to foreswear such a literary auto-da-fe. John Feffer: The Geopolitics of Stupidity
  • Characters also recoil on their authors in the wake of writing; when Elias Canetti finished Auto-da-Fe, he fell into confused remorse and guilt for inventing the death by fire that was his protagonist Kien's fate.
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