Torquemada
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It’s Torquemada, he’s been told, Who’s here to damn him to perdition.
From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022
Torquemada may have been the driving force behind the Spanish Inquisition, but Ruy Lopez is the far more famous Spanish prelate of the time, to go by Google hits.
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2021
The other major world leaders depicted here, aside from Louis, are the Roman Emperor Nero and the Spanish Grand Inquisitor Torquemada.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2021
In the hit television series 24, Kiefer Sutherland's character is a badass counterterrorism agent whose “ends justify the means” philosophy makes him a modern-day Tomás de Torquemada.
From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2017
Pomar was a descendant of the royal house of Tezcuco, and his memoirs were made use of in MS. by Torquemada.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert
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