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- Defenestration - Wikipedia
Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā[1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window [2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War
- DEFENESTRATION Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
These days, defenestration —from the Latin fenestra, meaning "window"—is often used to describe the forceful removal of someone from public office or from some other advantageous position
- DEFENESTRATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Add to word list formal the action of throwing or pushing someone out of a window: his death by defenestration
- DEFENESTRATION Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
DEFENESTRATION definition: the act of throwing a person or thing out of a window See examples of defenestration used in a sentence
- Defenestration | violent act | Britannica
In Defenestration: Prague’s History of Literally Throwing Authority Out the Window …home to a series of defenestrations, a term that refers to the act of throwing someone out of a window Today it is more commonly used to describe the removal of someone from a position of power
- defenestration - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
defenestration (countable and uncountable, plural defenestrations) The act of throwing something or especially someone out of a window, especially lethally [from c 17th c ] quotations
- defenestration, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
defenestration, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- Defenestrations of Prague - Wikipedia
More events of defenestration have occurred in Prague during its history, but they are not usually called "defenestrations of Prague" Sometimes, the name "the fourth" or "the third defenestration of Prague" is used, although it has no standard meaning
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