Definitions for auto-da-fe

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auto-da-fe au·to-da-fé

Spelling: [aw-toh-duh-fey]

IPA: /ˌɔ toʊ dəˈfeɪ/

Auto-Da-Fe is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in auto-da-fe (--aadefotu).

Definitions for auto-da-fe

noun

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

Origin of auto-da-fe

1715-25; Portuguese: act of the faith

Examples for auto-da-fe

He must have seen the horizon of the future red with the flames of the auto-da-fe.

Not that he is in danger of an auto-da-fe, but he is exposed to continued obloquy and persecution.

Now, on this occasion, he deftly applied a Japanese blister, which burned as fiercely as an auto-da-fe of the year 1600.

Judas serves in Brazil for a Guy Faux to be carried about by the boys, and made the subject of an auto-da-fe.

The auto-da-fe was almost identical with the sermo generalis of the medieval inquisition.

Princes of the Church and magistrates were present at these auto-da-fe.

He had been unable to attend the auto-da-fe at which the heretics were committed to the flames.

It is Kropotkine especially who attributes immense importance to these auto-da-fe.

Indeed, there were not wanting many heretic-hating persons who affirmed that an auto-da-fe was got up expressly for the occasion.

Beside, sir, the mob like this Inquisition, and an auto-da-fe is even better sport to them than a bull-fight.