stoning

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
verb kill by throwing stones at
verb remove the pits from

Condemned of thyself, and to thine own stoning: O Zarathustra, far indeed threwest thou thy stone—but upon THYSELF will it recoil!” Then was the dwarf silent; and it lasted long. — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Ay, truly, from the court-martial before the roaring camp in the morning, the unmasking of all your accomplices, the deeper shame of every one-time friend, the blazoning of your infamy in public evidence through Hellas, the soldiers howling for your blood, the stoning, perchance the plucking in pieces. — A Victor of Salamis, William Stearns Davis
And apropos of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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