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Definition of Lynching
1. Noun. Putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law.
Definition of Lynching
1. Noun. Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially hanging ¹
2. Noun. Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of lynch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lynching
1. the act of one who lynches [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynching
Literary usage of Lynching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"An investigation into the history of lynching in the United States. ... The evils
of lynching and convict camp. From the Howard Association, London, ..."
2. The Roosevelt Doctrine: Being the Personal Utterances of the President on by Theodore Roosevelt (1904)
"Every violent man in the community is encouraged by every case of lynching in
which the lynchers go unpunished to himself take the law into his own hands ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Iniquities of lynching.—The process is not simply extra-legal but anti-legal.
... There are cases of lynching where men have been tried and convicted and ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"said lynching in any court of competent jurisdiction." The act of the legislature
is as follows: "Sec. 1. That in the case of any prisoner lawfully in the ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"lynching outrage in the Indian Territory. Gen. tirant taken to Mount McGregor.
... lynching of five men in Texas. Death of Mamiani, Italian statesman. 22. ..."
6. Methods of Penal Administration in the United States by Edward Grubb (1906)
"lynching. One object of my visit was to make inquiry into the causes of lynching.
This I did incidentally rather than directly, as opportunity offered. ..."
7. Selected Articles on the Negro Problem by Julia Emily Johnsen (1921)
"Let us try so to consider the matter of lynching. ... The first important
circumstance to be noted and remembered is that lynching is not a Southern, ..."
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