lynching, vbl. n.
(ˈlɪnʃɪŋ)
[f. lynch v. + -ing1.]
The action of lynch v.; an instance of this.
| 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures Texas vii. 103 This is what we call Lynching in Natchez. 1837 Southern Lit. Messenger III. 648 The outrages of the borderers, the frontier law of ‘regulation’ or ‘lynching’, which is common to new countries all over the world, are ascribed to slavery. 1839 Niles' Reg. 14 Dec. 256/1 Horrible lynching. 1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 281 Lynchings in the South are mainly caused by the peculiar nature of the crimes for which lynching is a penalty. |
| attrib. 1879 Sir G. Campbell White & Black 171 Several lynching cases of atrocity occured before I had been many weeks in the States. 1884 Sir L. H. Griffin Gt. Repub. 148 He was taken to the scene of the crime by a lynching party. 1900 Congress Rec. 31 Jan. 1369/1 They have sometimes had ‘lynching bees’,..they have sometimes lynched men for murder, for arson, for rape. 1903 C. T. Brady Bishop ix. 172, I don't join no more lynchin'-bees. 1943 Christian Cent. 1 Dec. 1/2 Evidently there is a widespread and growing fear lest the United Nations..let loose in Europe what might turn out to be little less than a gigantic lynching bee. |