Definition of Crucifixions

1. Noun. (plural of crucifixion) ¹

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Definition of Crucifixions

1. crucifixion [n] - See also: crucifixion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crucifixions

cruciferous
cruciferous plant
cruciferous vegetable
crucifers
crucifiction
crucifictions
crucified
crucifier
crucifiers
crucifies
crucifix
crucifix fish
crucifixes
crucifixion
crucifixionlike
crucifixions (current term)
crucifixlike
cruciform
cruciform eminence
cruciform ligament of atlas
cruciform loops
cruciform structure
cruciforms
crucify
crucifying
crucigerous
cruciverbalism

Literary usage of Crucifixions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Ancient Working People by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1889)
"Gracchus at Rome—Arrival of a Roman Army under Piso— Beginning of Reverses—crucifixions—Demoralization—Fall of Messana—Siege of Enna—Inscriptions verifying ..."

2. Four Great Venetians: An Account of the Lives and Works of Giorgione, Titian by Frank Preston Stearns (1900)
"crucifixions. Tintoretto painted three crucifixions, which are all so different in style as well as composition, that if his name should ever happen to be ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"At present no "crucifixions" take place, though previous to 1896 they were annual in many places in New Mexico and Colorado. The Penitentes now confine ..."

4. The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times by Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"... second — Famine — Murders within the City — crucifixions without — The City encircled with a Trench and Wall — Antonia taken — Capture — Conflagration ..."

5. In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or, Modern Persia: Or, Modern Persia by Charles James Wills (1891)
"... mortar —Wholesale walling up alive—A narrow escape from, and horrible miscarriage in carrying it out—Burning alive—crucifixions—Severity : its results. ..."

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