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Definition of Beheading
1. Noun. Execution by cutting off the victim's head.
Generic synonyms: Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Executing, Execution
2. Noun. Killing by cutting off the head.
Definition of Beheading
1. Verb. (present participle of behead) ¹
2. Noun. An instance of at least one person being beheaded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beheading
1. behead [v] - See also: behead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beheading
Literary usage of Beheading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight by George Lyman Kittredge (1916)
"THE CHALLENGE; OR, THE beheading GAME THE IRISH VERSIONS OUR study of the
extraordinary tale known as The beheading Game — or, as we have agreed to call it, ..."
2. Paris: Including a Description of the Principal Edifices and Curiosities of by Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1817)
"beheading. - WHILE the punishment of hanging is corn-. ... that of beheading is
almost unknown. When a man is executed by decapitation it-is long remembered ..."
3. ... The Russian River: A Characteristic Stream of the California Coast Ranges by Ruliff Stephen Holway (1917)
"THE beheading OF NAVARRO RIVER Field evidence that the coast streams of the plateau
... Some five years ago before this idea of the beheading of the coast ..."
4. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"Recommends measures for safety, with the beheading of the Queen of Scots. [Ms.
LANSDOWN 15. art. 41. Orig.] %• Lord Clarendon calls fifteen hundred and ..."
5. The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil by Theodore Parker (1855)
"But other monuments are the fines and imprisonment, the exile and the beheading
of men and women! Words are "sedition," "rebellion," "treason;" nay, ..."
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