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Definition of Stonings
1. stoning [n] - See also: stoning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonings
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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