Definition of Stonings

1. Noun. (plural of stoning) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stonings

1. stoning [n] - See also: stoning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonings

stoney
stong
stongs
stonied
stonier
stonies
stoniest
stonified
stonifies
stonify
stonifying
stonily
stoniness
stoninesses
stoning
stonings (current term)
stonish
stonished
stonishes
stonishing
stonk
stonked
stonker
stonkered
stonkers
stonking
stonks
stonn
stonne
stonned

Literary usage of Stonings

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

1. University Sermons by Henry Sloane Coffin (1914)
"He runs over the list of his toils and pains—prisons, stripes, deaths, stonings, perils of robbers, of rivers, in the wilderness, in the sea, ..."

2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... go and tell him that his jewels are all in his possession; that I never received from the Church anything but wounds and stonings at that epoch of the ..."

3. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"... that I never received from the Church anything but wounds and stonings at that epoch of the sack; that I never reckoned upon any gain beyond some small ..."

4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... that I never received from the Church anything but wounds and stonings at that epoch of the sack; that I never reckoned upon any gain beyond some small ..."

5. The Apostolic Fathers by Clement, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890)
"There was Paul, who, after enduring chains, imprisonments, stonings again and again, and sufferings of all kinds, preached the Gospel in the extreme West, ..."

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