8 sentences with “notion”

500 years ago, Europeans had almost no notion of North and South Americans and vice versa.

In short, the very notion of tolerance, of "live and let live", was almost non-existent in early Europe.

Out of this context, of widespread corruption and the rather flagrant abuse of the notion of spiritual salvation through the Church, came Martin Luther.

As they continued to practice Judaism and maintain Jewish traditions, the notion of a people dispersed in different lands but still united by culture and religion emerged.

Nowhere was there the slightest notion of "religious toleration" in the modern sense - both sides were convinced that any and all who disagreed with their spiritual views were doomed to an eternity of suffering in hell.

From the Greek polis of the Archaic and later Classical Ages, the notion of legal citizenship and equality, the practice of voting laws, and a particular concept of political pride now called patriotism, all took shape for the first time.

The concept of indulgences was based on the notion of a "treasury of merit" - a kind of spiritual bank - whose savings had been deposited by the sacrifices made by Christ and the saints. When someone bought an indulgence, they drew on that treasury to avoid time in purgatory.

In the Europe of the 1400s, they tended to confuse "India", "Cathay" and "Japan" with Asia itself. They had a vague notion that all of Asia was ruled by khans, partly due to the popularity of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo's famous account of his travels in the latter part of the 13th century.