Definitions for sanbenito

sanbenito san·be·ni·to

Spelling: [san-buh-nee-toh]
IPA: /ˌsæn bəˈni toʊ/

Sanbenito is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 587 anagrams from letters in sanbenito (abeinnost).

Definitions for sanbenito

noun

  1. an ornamented garment worn by a condemned heretic at an auto-da-fé.
  2. a penitential garment worn by a confessed heretic, of yellow for the penitent, of black for the impenitent.

Origin of sanbenito

1550-60; Spanish, named after San Benito Saint Benedict, from its resemblance to the scapular believed to have been introduced by him

Examples for sanbenito

Two years and a half were spent on the trials of Diego and Ana, ending with a sentence of irremissible prison and sanbenito.

I would rather have put on a sanbenito myself than have gone there.

Valer's sanbenito was displayed for a long time in the metropolitan church of Seville.

He had received 150,000 maraveds by selling to penitents exemptions from wearing the sanbenito, or penitential garment.

He continued his apostolate and, on a second trial, he was condemned to perpetual prison and sanbenito.

This saco bendito became known as the sanbenito or, more commonly, abito and was necessarily inherited by the new Inquisition.

Word Value for sanbenito
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Words with friends

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