Torquemada
Americannoun
noun
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Torquemada announced a contest to solve the book in the Observer, promising successful entrants a prize of 25 pounds, or roughly $2,500 today.
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 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
There’s dramatic irony in the fact that he does not know Man was his Torquemada.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 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
The king applied to the Pope, who instituted Torquemada special inquisitor of the town and bishopric of Barcelona, with the power of appointing others to the office.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
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