Lynching is valid Scrabble Word

Is lynching a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for LYNCHING in dictionary:

VERB:

(of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging

NOUN:

the act of lynching
putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to put to death without legal sanction
the act of one who lynches

Words related to LYNCHING

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Words that contain LYNCHING

lynchings18 antilynching21

How to use LYNCHING in a sentence

Sibley called out the Pioneer Guards to proceed to the place where the lynching occurred and arrest all persons connected with the tragedy.
He had no wish to be actively mixed up with a lynching party.
The lynching of the blacks, at first for assaults on white women and later for almost any offense, has rapidly developed as an institution.
There has been some manifestation of its possible consequences in the recent outbreaks of lynching and other race oppression in the South.
Of course, there are in the South men of liberal thought who do not approve lynching, but I wonder how long they will endure the limits which are placed upon free speech.
To draw Janet from the painful theatricals, she took advantage of a casual question about the lynching, and went into the details of that red evening as she had not with anyone.
A trial, even, would be just lynching under another name.
The article was a frank and somewhat bold discussion of lynching and its causes.
XXVIII IN SEASON AND OUT Wellington soon resumed its wonted calm, and in a few weeks the intended lynching was only a memory.
Finally in the fall after the last lynching Mike came to town and in order to pick a quarrel with Mr.

On January 4th, 1902, Mary Lorenz, a half breed daughter of old Mary Hall, swore to a warrant charging, fifteen others with complicity in the lynching.
The cry for a rope and a lynching began with a promptness that few would have expected.
That a lynching was possible he could scarcely have been made to believe.
Plunder, arson, lynching and burning at the stake were employed against him to break his morale or incite him against America.
Quite a few of the crowd had assisted the night before in lynching her husband, and this meeting occurred at the burying-ground the next afternoon.
These lynching proceedings, the loyalists said, increased the loyalist party very fast and made them sure of a majority.
Your ancestor belonged to the party who did all this lynching and inaugurated the reign of terror and he has himself told us how it staggered him.
The mob spirit, which had broken out in the lynching of Johnson, still dominated the town, and no one dared to speak against it.
Lynching a human creature is no less murder when the act of a mob than when that of a single individual.
It was now that the sinister crime of lynching raised its head in defiance of all law.
Judge Lawless defended the lynching and even William Ellery Channing took a compromising view.
Any cause of controversy, however slight, that forced a Negro to defend himself against a white man might result in a lynching, and possibly in a burning.
In the first week of March, 1904, there was in Mississippi a lynching that exceeded even others of the period in its horror and that became notorious for its use of a corkscrew.
Worse than anything else, however, was the matter of lynching.
On December 30 there was a wholesale lynching of six Negroes in Early County.
The situation that preceded the lynching was significant.
Lynching began to grow apace, burlesque on the stage tended to depreciate and humiliate the race, and the South became definitely united in its defense of the system of slavery.
It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader, and we will go back at once to Judge Henry and his meditations about lynching.
In 1896 we note the first statutes against lynching.
Had it been otherwise no human power could have protected Haas from lynching.
This would have been the first lynching recorded in Canada.
The punishments meted out were fines, flogging, banishment, and, as a last resort, lynching.
AMERICANS Eugene Field was at a dinner in London when the conversation turned to the subject of lynching in the United States.

Similar words containing LYNCH without suffix ing

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