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Definition of Defenestration
1. Noun. The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
Definition of Defenestration
1. Noun. The act of throwing something, or someone, out of a window. ¹
2. Noun. (British) High profile removal of a person from an organization. ¹
3. Noun. (neologism humorous) The act of removing the (w Microsoft Windows) operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defenestration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defenestration
Literary usage of Defenestration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Austro-Hungary from the Earliest Time to the Year 1889 by Louis Leger (1889)
"Mathias (1612-1619)—The defenestration at Prague (1618). Unhappily, the Protestants
and ... defenestration ..."
2. Sketch of the religious history of the Slavonic nations by Walerjan Skorobohaty Krasiński, Valerian Krasinski (1851)
"... the reign of Mathias—defenestration of Prague—Ferdinand the Second; his firmness
of character, and devotion to the Roman Catholic Church—His deposition, ..."
3. The Story of Prague by Francis Lützow (1902)
"This ' defenestration,' as it was called in Bohemia, marks the beginning of the
great religious struggle in Bohemia, as the defenestration from the Hradcany ..."
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