autos-da-fé

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of auto-da-fé.
  auto-da-fé

  noun

  the public declaration of the judgment passed on persons tried in the courts of the Spanish Inquisition, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed, especially the burning of condemned heretics at the stake.

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autos-da-fé

Seven out of eighteen autos-da-fé presided over by the famous Inquisitor, Bernard Gui, decreed no severer penalty than imprisonment.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway

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