Inquisition
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See also inquisition
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Inquisition
- a tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy
- (by extension) a harsh or rigorous interrogation that violates the rights of an individual
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Inquisition f. (genitive Inquisition, plural Inquisitionen)