Sentences with phrase «vehement suspicion»

Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.

Galileo at the age of seventy had been convicted of «vehement suspicion of heresy» as a result of the publication of his masterpiece, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems.

Galileo was then interrogated under threat of torture, and made to abjure the «vehement suspicion of heresy».

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This being Massachusetts in the 17th Century, suspicions of sorcery soon swirl around Thomasin, her vehement protestations of innocence notwithstanding.