...I recall some pretty nasty incidences, including one in Edinburgh where 18,000 Christians froze to death in cages outside while waiting to be burned at the stake, but yeah I see your point. That said, I'll stand behind the word "perceptible" even if the perception is arguably a false one.

Edit: So, 16 hours and 50 minutes after posting this comment and about 15 seconds after I decided that the something demanding a citation doesn't deserve to be notified of my find, I feel forced to give up on the specific claim of the Edinburgh freeze. On the way, I found a reading from Foxe's Book of Martyrs with numbers from the Spanish Inquisition, but I'm not sure of the breakdown or sum (and can't find any online copies that have these totals), as to whether it adds up to 31912 or 42132 executions. There would obviously be a lot of additional non-execution fatalities among the hundreds of thousands of those robbed and imprisoned which could be counted as murders.

...I recall some pretty nasty incidences, including one in Edinburgh where 18,000 Christians froze to death in cages outside while waiting to be burned at the stake, but yeah I see your point. That said, I'll stand behind the word "perceptible" even if the perception is arguably a false one.