lynching
n.
execution without trial; passing of a verdict without a trial; hanging of Black Americans as an act of racial violence (primarily in the South during the 1880s -1960s)
lynch
v.
execute without a trial (especially by hanging)
Lynching
Lynching is the practice of inflicting summary punishment upon an offender, by a self-constituted
court armed with no legal authority; it is now limited to the
summary execution of one charged with some flagrant offence. In its earliest usage the term implied "the infliction of punishment such as
whipping,
tarring and feathering, or the like." Today it refers only to the inflicting of sentence of death by lynch law.
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lynching
Noun
1. putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
(hypernym) murder, slaying, execution
(derivation) lynch
lynch
Verb
1. kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"
(hypernym) kill
(derivation) lynching
Lynching
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Lynch
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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