How To Use Marrano In A Sentence
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Death of Don Joseph Nasi, a wealthy Jewish businessman (born as a Marrano in Portugal) who moved to Istanbul from Europe in 1554 and gained much influence by financing the rise to power of Selim II.
C. 1570
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Other names for pig are cerdo, cochino and marrano, and a suckling pig is called a lechón.
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Maraniss comes from Marrano, which is a word that was given to Spanish Jews during the Inquisition, conversos.
First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
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In late 1594, Elizabeth I's personal physician -- and one of Burghley's highest-placed intelligencers -- a Portugese Marrano (a crypto-Jew) by the name of Roderigo or Roderick or Roger Lopez or Lopus or Lopius, was executed at Tyburn for plotting to murder the queen.
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Marrano, which is behind the Cibo Palace, near the houses of the
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A fully fledged Marrano represents as much a taxonomicl challenge to the historian as the duck-billed platypus did to a Victorian naturalist.
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During his four years in Montpellier, Platter lodged with a Marrano family, Spanish Jews forcibly converted to Christianity.
Savoring The Past
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Her target was solely the marranos, "converts" who were suspected of still practising their "heathen rites" under the cloak of Catholic piety.
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He was declared a Marrano, a Jew who had only pretended to embrace the One True Faith.
Crusade
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There were terms for a Christian living under Arab rule (mozarab), a Muslim living under Christian rule (mudejar), a Christian who converted to Islam (muladi), a Jew who converted to Christianity (converso), a Jew who converted but remained a secret Jew (marrano) and a Muslim who converted to Christianity (morisco). . .
Philocrites: September 2003 Archives
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Cut off from the Jewish world outside Portugal, with education and worship rendered dangerous by the presence of the Inquisition, Marrano faith became diluted and diverged from Jewish tradition.
Well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone
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But Sarah, while no longer a Christian in spirit, is not yet a Jew: she has become a Marrano, an exiled Jew under cover running away from Paris twenty years ago to try and discover who she is.
Mich��le Sarde.
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As my ailing father spoke of this background, he had come to embrace his Marrano heritage and the Sephardic revivalism that had become part of contemporary Jewish-American culture.
