burn someone at the stake
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Another Spaniard who became a Lutheran, Miguel Servet, actually published a book in which he rejected many Catholic ideas. Servet was smart enough to leave the country before the agents of the Inquisition could find and arrest him. In an ironic twist, however, he also angered members of another emerging Protestant sect, Calvinism, and in 1553 some Calvinists burned him at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland."
- "We mistakenly believe there is only one right answer or belief system (or one wrong problem); we've become addicted to the dopamine hits of “likes” and others' agreement with our ideas; and we've returned to “burning people at the stake” online if we don’t agree with their beliefs."