All information asked for was to be freely exchanged, especially as regarded limpieza (Ibidem, Leg.
The growth of the absurd cult of limpieza brought another hardship of no little moment.
At this period limpiezawas becoming a popular mania; the cost of proving it through four generations was considerable, and there was strong temptation in the promise that the expenses of all applicants would be defrayed from the common fund.
Not only confiscation but pecuniary penance and fines were a source of revenue provocative of continual abuse, and the rage for Limpieza provided abundant opportunities for extortion.
The struggle continued until, on August 3d, the Suprema wrote that he could have Pérez, but his limpieza must first be proved and Philip's consent to his absence be obtained.
We have seen how prolonged, costly and anxious were investigations intolimpieza and, as Fray Luis remarked, this was to grant and to refuse in the same breath.
Moreover married men were obliged to furnish proofs of the limpieza of their wives and those already in office were to be dismissed if there was defect of limpieza in the wife.
By this time the question of limpieza was ever present and every one was popularly classed as an Old Christian or a New, for genealogies seem to have been public property.
The Cardinal Archbishop Tavera attempted, in 1539, to procure the adoption of a statute of limpieza in the cathedral, but the opposition was so strong that he was obliged to desist.
The University, in 1776, had revived its statute of limpieza and had closed its doors to the proscribed class.
Yet, while he indignantly denied the aspersion on the limpieza of the nation, he was fully alive to the misery caused by the current practice and he urged a limitation of time, placing it at 1492, the year of the expulsion of the Jews.
Possibly Barcelona was worse than other tribunals, but the memorial of 1623 to the Suprema states that in many of them there are processes, books, papers, informations of limpieza etc.
Usually the oath as to the truth of the genealogy and the limpieza of the ancestry is taken by the applicant personally, and it varies according to his taste.
Sidenote: Limpieza de sangre and the fervor of Spanish Catholicism.
The ideal of Catholic unity was carried to an excess which transcended unity itself through an extension of the institution of limpieza de sangre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limpieza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
