单词 | burning at the stake |
释义 | burning at the stake (once / 100164 pages) n WORD FAMILY burning at the stake: burnings at the stake USAGE EXAMPLESFive hundred years ago, a man who condoned torture, religious persecution, and burning at the stake wrote a book about the perfect world. The New Yorker(Sep 26, 2016) He won’t come out and say the word “heresy,” but he does offer warnings about the prevalence of burnings at the stake. Seattle Times(May 31, 2016) After a few centuries of suppression by the Catholic Church and some burnings at the stake, we eventually adjusted to the idea. Slate(Dec 10, 2014) n execution by fire Syn|Hypo|Hyper burning auto-da-fe the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition) capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution putting a condemned person to death |
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