Cause For Burning At The Stake Crossword Clue

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	noun • any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position • a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
	31%	8		Burning at the stake event
	noun • the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
	31%	9		Notorious for burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake
	noun • daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)

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