What is another word for inquisition?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪnkwɪsˈɪʃən] (IPA)

Inquisition is a term that refers to an investigation or questioning. In the context of history, it often refers to a period in which religious authorities interrogated people suspected of heresy. However, there are a number of synonyms for this term that capture different shades of meaning. For example, scrutiny, inquiry, examination, probe, and investigation can all be used to describe the process of looking into something. Interrogation and cross-examination emphasize the questioning or interrogation aspect, while audit, review, and evaluation emphasize a more structured or systematic approach. Ultimately, the choice of synonym depends on the specific context and the intended connotations.

Synonyms for Inquisition:

What are the hypernyms for Inquisition?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    persecution, questioning, religious persecution, faith-based persecution, persecution of intellectuals, persecution of minorities.

What are the hyponyms for Inquisition?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Inquisition

Dil, half-stifled with bad air, and racked with that fearful mental inquisition, collapsed.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
51 inquisition, the, iv.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
He asked me if I had been in Spain, and if I was not imprisoned by the inquisition.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond

Famous quotes with Inquisition

  • If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
    Thomas Hardy
  • That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
    Thomas Howard
  • Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
    Jeremy Taylor
  • The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. Think at last We have not reached conclusion, when I Stiffen in a rented house. Think at last I have not made this show purposelessly And it is not by any concitation Of the backward devils. I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated?
    T. S. Eliot
  • But for Camoens, though he has some glaring faults, he hath, doubtless, many original beauties; both of which, indeed, speak uncommon abilities. He is not correct like Virgil; but the hand of cold and sober judgment would have blotted out the novelties that surprise and delight us: these are "sublime infirmities," which will not bear the inquisition of the critic. "The epic poetry of Camoens, (says Voltaire,) is a sort of poetry unheard of before." I allow it; but not to his dishonour. The manners of the Lusiad are new and striking. And as to imagery, the apparition, hovering athwart the fleet near the Cape of Good Hope, is so grand a fiction, that it would alone set Camoens above Virgil, in point of genius. And what are the Elysian Fields to the Island of Venus!
    Luís de Camões

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