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autos-da-fé
Variant of auto-da-fé
noun pl. autos-da-fé
- the public ceremony in which the Inquisition pronounced judgment and passed sentence on those tried as heretics
- the execution by the secular power of the sentence thus passed; esp., the public burning of a heretic
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