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Benefit of clergy - Wikipedia
Psalm 51:3 became known as the "neck verse" because knowing it could "save one's neck" (an idiom for "save one's life") by transferring the case from a secular ... en.wikipedia.org
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Education can save your life – the story of the Neck Verse
Psalm 51 became known as the 'neck verse' – because it could save your neck from the noose. The neck verse does appear to have been invoked with great ... historyofeducation.net
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The "Neck Verse" - Voice of Prophecy
The first verse of Psalm 51 has come to be known as the "neck verse," because, historically speaking, the ability to read it aloud was a way to escape the ... www.voiceofprophecy.com
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neck-verse
ˈneck-verse [f. neck n.1] A Latin verse printed in black-letter (usually the beginning of the fifty-first psalm) formerly set before one claiming benefit of clergy (see clergy 6), by reading which he might save his neck. Now only Hist.a 1450 Mankind (Brandl) 506 Lett ws conne well owur neke verse, þ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Neck Verse - United Church of Christ
It came to be known as the “neck verse,” not because it contained pleas to save someone's neck, but because memorizing it could quite literally do exactly that. www.ucc.org
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TIL that from 1170 to 1512, "The Neck Verse" could save one from ...
TIL that from 1170 to 1512, "The Neck Verse" could save one from punishment for almost any crime in England. Literate accusees, or criminals ... www.reddit.com
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Psalm 51
Thus, an illiterate person who had memorized this psalm could also claim the benefit of clergy, and Psalm 51 became known as the "neck-verse" because knowing wikipedia.org
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NECK-VERSE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
a verse usually consisting of the first lines of a Latin version of the 51st psalm formerly set before an accused person claiming benefit of clergy. www.merriam-webster.com
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How Psalm 51 Became the 'Neck Verse' That Could Spare Your Life!
Reciting Psalm 51 could literally save someone from execution in medieval England through the "neck verse." ucatholic.com
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The Neck Verse: How to Escape Execution With a Little Latin
Explore the fascinating story of Ben Jonson, the 'Benefit of Clergy,' or 'Neck Verse,' and how his Latin skills saved him from execution in 1598. commonplacefacts.com
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Neck-Verse - English-Language Thoughts
It therefore became known as the neck-verse, because knowing it could save your neck from the hangman. englishlanguagethoughts.com
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sizz
sizz, v. (sɪz) Also 8 siz. Chiefly dial. or U.S. [Imitative: cf. siss v., and WFris. size, siizje.] † 1. trans. To burn, brand. Obs.—1a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v. Neck-verse, The Women are of course sizz'd in the Fist, without running the risque of a Halter. 2. intr. To give out a hissing soun... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ben Jonson
manslaughter, Jonson pleaded guilty but was released by benefit of clergy, a legal ploy through which he gained leniency by reciting a brief Bible verse (the neck-verse wikipedia.org
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1992 in poetry
Fanthorpe, Neck-Verse Thom Gunn: The Man With Night Sweats Old Stories Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon Seamus Heaney: The Golden Bough, Bonnefant wikipedia.org
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clergy
clergy (ˈklɜːdʒɪ) Forms: 3–6 clergye, 3–7 clergie, 4 clergi, cleargye, (cleregie, -gye), 4–5 clerge, 4–7 clargy, -gie, (5 clerigie), 6 clargye, 6–7 cleargie, -gy, 4– clergy. [a. OF. clergie (12th c. in Littré), clargie, fem., literally ‘clerkship’, n. of state f. clerc:—clēric-us cleric, clerk. For ... Oxford English Dictionary
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