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Definition of Gibbeting
1. gibbet [v] - See also: gibbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbeting
Literary usage of Gibbeting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hanging in Chains by Albert Hartshorne (1891)
"... the fact was committed ; but this was no part of the legal judgment.1 By an
Act of 25 George IL (1752) gibbeting in chains was first legally recognized. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"Though the bodies of numbers of murderers must have been disposed of in this way,
there are not many of these chains or gibbeting irons now in existence, ..."
3. The Punishment of Death: A Selection of Articles from the Morning Herald by Thomson Gale (Firm) (1837)
"It is not of a ferocious character like gibbeting. It does not obtrude an offensive
exhibition on the public view, nor does it liken Justice to some foul ..."
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