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Definition of Gibbetting
1. gibbet [v] - See also: gibbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbetting
Literary usage of Gibbetting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"and generally consisted in burning or gibbetting the offenders alive. '
Insurrection' (says the author) ' is not the only crime for which an exemplary death ..."
2. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"Insurrection is not the only crime for which an exemplary death has been inflicted
at Barbadoes; nor is gibbetting alive, or what the agent called starving ..."
3. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"Insurrection is not the only crime for which an exemplary death has been inflicted
at Barbadoes; nor is gibbetting alive, or what the agent called starving ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1835)
"... prayed to be allowed the expenses of gibbetting John Dean on Stockport Moor,
amounting to 84/. 8s. 3d., which was allowed to him accordingly by Mr. Pitt ..."
5. Sketches of America: A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through by Henry Bradshaw Fearon (1818)
"... hangings, and gibbetting, are- neither the ,most.economical nor .the most
efficacious, as they are certainly neither the most humane, ..."
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