Today I read about auto-da-fe, literally "act of faith".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives] Reference

Spaniard who, horrified by the spectacle of an auto-da-fe, abjures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron] Reference

No, the Steyn auto-da-fe is not being widely reported, except by the usual suspects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passion of The Steyn] Reference

The public, the handlers know, is likely to be disgusted by another partisan auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights Out: Enron's Failed Power Play] Reference

The preacher admits that he broke his promise back in September to foreswear such a literary auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: The Geopolitics of Stupidity] Reference

The Spanish auto-da-fe was an act of Christianity; Andreachuk's order is an anti-Christian auto-da-fe, in which Rev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives] Reference

I hired Andres and he got the job he quit yesterday when I was canned at an earlier stage of the ongoing auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [What A Day, What A Day for an Auto-da-fe - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

Until now the rest of the world (or Greece) had supinely sat back and watched this curious Athenian act of auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Fletcher: The Iraq Expedition: Greek Drama About an American Tragedy] Reference

These -- this is a nefarious, insipid message, which has led to inquisitions, auto-da-fe, pogroms, expulsions, and ultimately the Holocaust.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Should Christians Stop Trying to Convert Jews? - January 12, 2000] Reference

Such were the objects who headed the ghastly procession, who seemed as effectually doomed to death as if they wore the sanbenitos of the condemned heretics in an auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

An inspiring and delightful recreation (auto-da-fe).    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Besides, there's an auto-da-fe scheduled for tomorrow morning!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrente] Reference

You, my young friend, saw a short time ago at the auto-da-fe in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Guayra to undergo the final punishment of burning alive at an auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess] Reference

Mr. Langton, with Lord Charles Douglas, had returned from the auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference

His nuptials with Elizabeth of France were celebrated by a vast auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference

In part he was defying her; as he proved at table by talking freely of the auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference

This delicate attention reminds me of the description of an auto-da-fe in my possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

The auto-da-fe was but a preliminary to the festivities and great processions of All Saints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference

He had been unable to attend the auto-da-fe at which the heretics were committed to the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

The end of his life was saddened by the auto-da-fe of Blois, at which numerous Jews suffered martyrdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rashi]

The auto-da-fe was both an expedient way to avoid appeals and a pretty unmistakable way to send a message.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He knew, of course, that the auto-da-fe had taken place, and that the Court had witnessed it in state from a royal box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference

He cannot acquire so much as a souphouse ticket in that city not made with hands by dying for the faith in the auto-da-fe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference

Not that he is exposed to the terrors of an auto-da-fe, but he is tormented by the slights and persecutions of daily obloquy.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Institutions and Their Influence] Reference

Was there any distinction between this Protestant auto-da-fe and the Catholic one of Vanini, who was burnt at Toulouse, by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference

The Duchess of Alva, and other ladies who had charge of her during her confinement, deserted her chamber in order to obtain absolution by witnessing an auto-da-fe of heretics.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

'auto-da-fe' in which I had not the slightest wish to be the principal actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference