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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | the marking of the beginning of the modern world, which influenced painting, sculpture, and architecture; means "rebirth" |
| Humanism | any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate. |
| Renaissance Man | a cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields. |
| Patron | a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like: a patron of the arts |
| Realism | the tendency to view or represent things as they really are |
| Protestant | any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church. |
| Reformation | the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches. |
| Vernacular | expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works: a vernacular poem. |
| Indulgences | a partial remission of the temporal punishment, esp. purgatorial atonement, that is still due for a sin or sins after absolution |
| Heretic | a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church |
| Excommunicated | to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by |
| Inquisition | any harsh, difficult, or prolonged questioning. |
| Anti-Semitism | prejudice against or hostility toward Jews |