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‖ Marrano Obs. exc. Hist.|maˈrrano|
In 6 marrane, maranne, pl. marrany, 6–7 maran(e, marano.
[Sp. marrano, of unknown origin.]
A name applied in mediæval Spain to a christianized Jew or Moor, esp. to one who merely professed conversion in order to avoid persecution. Also attrib.
1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iv. 50 The women, chose rather to drowne them selues..then to be dishonored with so Barbarous a Maran. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xiii. 49 An infinite multitude of Iewes and Marannes driuen out of Spain. Ibid. iv. xvi. 130 b, The Maranes of late banished and driuen out of Spaine and Portugale. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 164 A sort of people of the Marrany as they terme them, who are baptized Jews and Moores. 1600O. E. Repl. Libel i. ii. 55 Those that will not suffer Christians to liue..dispense with apostataes, maranoes, and rinegued Turkes. Ibid. ii. iii. 58 They absolue..most wicked rebels, yea Marans and apostataes. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1662) 205 A very christened Jew, a Maran. 1901Westm. Gaz. 12 Aug. 3/1 Two years later the Crypto-Jews or Marranos of London had acquired ‘untrammelled trading rights’. 1941G. G. Scholem Major Trends Jewish Mysticism vii. 240 The beginning of the persecution of the Jews in Spain and the appearance of Marrano Judaism after 1391. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 133 More logical were those who attempted amalgamation: but even this, as a mass movement, merely produces Marranos. 1960L. P. Gartner Jewish Immigrant i. 16 The mid-seventeenth century, when the earlier flight of Marranos from Spain and Portugal was no longer important. 1973Jewish Chron. 2 Feb. 3/5 The 90 members of the tribe near the town of Pachuca..claim that some of their ancestors were Marranos (baptised Jews suspected of secret adherence to Judaism) who were burnt at the stake in Mexico during the 16th century. 1973Publishers Weekly 3 Sept. 44/1 The term ‘Marranos’ originally denoted those Spanish Jews who, during the Inquisition, or long before it, converted to Catholicism but continued secretly to practice their Jewish faith; loosely it denotes all secret Jews.
Hence Maˈrranic a., ˈMarranism, † ˈMarranized ppl. a., Maˈrranoism.
[1563–83Foxe A. & M. II. 905/1 All these thinges were a meere Maranismus, that is, sauoured of the law of Maranorum.] 1611Cotgr., Marranisé,..Marranized, renegaded. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. (1737) 216 Apostates and marraniz'd Miscreants. 1737Ozell Rabelais III. 232 note, There were several Sons and Grandsons of the Family, which Jos. Scaliger suspected of Maranism (Judaism). 1924Glasgow Herald 25 Sept. 6 In most Latin American countries, the arrivals find no organized Jewish life—only Marranoism. 1941G. G. Scholem Major Trends Jewish Mysticism vii. 254 The descendant of a Marranic family. Ibid. viii. 311 The conception of a voluntary Marranism. |