I'm not arguing with the dictionary. You're playing with the dictionary trying to put a term that doesn't fit into the context to try and sway opinion. As an apologist for Rome with their track record, you're doing no more than I expect - lawyering trying to beg reason. The word use you're playing games with doesn't work, it doesn't fit the historical record or the context or much anything else other than the current handwringing trying to make Rome look less culpable that it really was. The Protestants are culpable for what they did and so is Rome.
I don't care about either at this point because it can't be changed. What I'm on about is the lying. And I don't care which of you does it. If Rome and Protestants are both lying, then, hey, You're both liars. But don't sit and handwring about it. Shape up and stop lying. Maybe one of the two groups might rediscover what a "witness" is.
Wrong again. Your version doesn't fit into the context of the document, unless you believe the dead notarize documents.
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