Puritans Flashcards

4805605933	blasphemous	deeply disrespectful of or sacrilegious against God or sacred things; profane	0
4805608148	habeus corpus	legal document used to review the legality of the party's arrest, imprisonment, or detention	1
4805609956	inscrutable	impossible to understand or interpret	2
4805611874	magistrate	a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law	3
4805613806	manifest	clear or obvious to the eye or mind	4
4805616006	non-conformity	failure or refusal to follow a standard rule or practice	5
4805617426	persecution	hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs	6
4805619211	repression	the action of subduing someone or something by force	7
4805620287	seditious	inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch	8
4805623230	theology	the study of the nature of God and religious belief	9
4805624455	tolerant	showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with	10
4805625885	solace	comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness	11
4805628262	profane	(of a person or their behavior) not respectful of orthodox religious practice	12
4805629522	haughty	arrogantly superior and disdainful; really snobby	13
4805630931	relent	become less severe or intense	14
4805631960	posterity	all future generations of people; the descendants of a person	15
4805633089	covenant	an agreement, especially by binding contract	16
4805635497	commission	an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people	17
4805636982	conformity	compliance with standards, rules, or laws	18
4805638411	perjure	willfully tell an untruth when giving evidence to a court; lie under oath	19
4805639455	superfluous	unnecessary, especially through being more than enough	20