lynching

English

Etymology

From lynch +‎ -ing, see lynch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪnt͡ʃɪŋ/

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Noun

lynching (plural lynchings)

1. Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging.
   • 1891, Grant Allen, Jerry Stokes:

     The police with difficulty prevented the swaying mass from lynching him on the spot.

   • 2012, Sarah Boslaugh, “Atlanta, Georgia”, in Wilbur R. Miller, editor, The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, Sage Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 74:

     Atlanta newspapers fanned the flames of racial hatred by carrying stories of lynchings and calling for a renewed Ku Klux Klan to “control” blacks.

Related terms

• lynch
• show trial
• kangaroo court

Translations

execution of a person without a proper legal trial

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私刑 (zh) (sīxíng), 私罰 / 私罚 (zh) (sīfá)

• Finnish: lynkkaus (fi)
• French: lynchage (fr) m
• Galician: linchamento (gl) m
• German: Lynchjustiz (de) f
• Hungarian: lincselés (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} linciaggio (it) m
• Japanese: リンチ (ja) (rinchi), 私刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei)
• Korean: 린치 (rinchi), 사형 (ko) (sahyeong)
• Lithuanian: lìnčas m
• Portuguese: linchamento (pt) m, linchagem f
• Russian: самосу́д (ru) m (samosúd), суд Ли́нча m (sud Línča), линчева́ние (ru) n (linčevánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ли̏нч m

  Roman: lȉnč (sh) m

• Spanish: linchamiento m
• Swedish: lynchning (sv) c
• Turkish: linç etme

Verb

lynching

1. present participle and gerund of lynch