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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells

Meaning of "lynch law" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LYNCH LAW

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LYNCH LAW

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preposition
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determiner
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Lynch law is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LYNCH LAW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lynching

Lynching is an extra-legal trial and punishment by an informal group. In most often is used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group. It is an extreme form of informal group social control such as charivari, Skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering, but with a drift toward the public spectacle. Lynchings have been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have often been a means for a dominant group to suppress challengers. However, it has also resulted from long-held prejudices and practices of discrimination that have conditioned societies to accept this type of violence as normal practices of popular justice. Though racial oppression and the frontier mentality in the United States have given lynching its current familiar face, execution by mob justice is not exclusive to North America, but it is also found around the world as vigilantes act to punish people behaving outside of commonly acceptable boundaries. Indeed, instances of it can be found in societies long antedating European settlement of North America.

Definition of lynch law in the English dictionary

The definition of lynch law in the dictionary is the practice of condemning and punishing a person by mob action without a proper trial.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LYNCH LAW

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WORDS THAT END LIKE LYNCH LAW

administrative law
case law
civil law
commercial law
common law
contract law
corporate law
court of law
criminal law
employment law
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international law
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Synonyms and antonyms of lynch law in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «lynch law» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LYNCH LAW

Find out the translation of lynch law to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

证券法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la ley de Lynch
570 millions of speakers

English

lynch law
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लिंच कानून
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قانون لينش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

суд Линча
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lei do linchamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লিঞ্চ আইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la loi de Lynch
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undang undang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lynchjustiz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

リンチの法則
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

린치 법
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lynch law
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

luật công chúng gia hình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லின்ச் சட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लिन्क कायदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Linç kanunu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linciaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prawo Lynch
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

суд Лінча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lege lynch
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lynch νόμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Lynch wet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Lynch lag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Lynch lov
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lynch law

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LYNCH LAW»

The term «lynch law» is normally little used and occupies the 128.888 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lynch law

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QUOTES WITH «LYNCH LAW»

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Ida B. Wells
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LYNCH LAW»

Discover the use of lynch law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lynch law and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lynch-Law: An Investigation Into the History of Lynching in ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
James Elbert Cutler, 2009
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Outlaws and Lynch Law
OUTLAWS: McLain went to Texas looking for a new life.
William S. Brady, 1984
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Southern Horrors Lynch Law In All Its Phases:
Ida B. Wells Barnett. year (1892). Since then, not less than one hundred and fifty have beei known to have met violent death at the hands of cruel bloodthirsty mob during the past nine months. To palliate this record (which grows worse as the ...
Ida B. Wells Barnett, 2014
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Lynch Law; or, the Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson ...
LYNCH-LAW BETTER THAN STATE-LAW. 289 batch of 'em preaching and praying, with the niggers beside, won't it ?” “ I expect it will, Mr. Whitlaw. But above all things we must get hold of Hogstown: he's the man to make the most of it.
Frances Milton Trollope, 1857
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Newell's Notes on Tar and Feathers, and the atrocities of ...
I have said that in the slave States woman's sex is no safeguard against the operations of lynch law. Several instances of this have come to my knowledge, though the details are often suppressed, as far as possible, out of regard to the feelings ...
Frederick Samuel NEWELL, 1864
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The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Lynch Law in the South North American Review 155 ( July 1892): 2-24 [Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, Douglass was one of the most forceful and eloquent orators of nineteenth-century America. Douglass ...
Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson, 2000
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Lynching and Vigilantism in the United States: An Annotated ...
Response to A. G. Bradley's article. Gives Galway, Ireland, 1493, version of origin of term but says "there is little doubt that the verb 'to lynch' and the phrase 'lynch law' come from across the Atlantic" [i.e., from the U.S.]. "Lynch Law." See Cohee ...
‎1997
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The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and ...
92 When the Cincinnati Republican ran a story headlined “LYNCH LAW IN CINCINNATI” denouncing the arson of some build- ings occupied by “blacks of the lowest and most abandoned character,” Bir- ney was glad to see the editor ...
Christopher Waldrep, 2002
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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and ...
see, in addition, "An Anti-Lynching Crusade in America Begun," 421-2; and " Remedies for Lynch Law: A Case in Point," Indianapolis Freeman, 4 August 1894 , 4. 1 12. Wells, A Red Record, title page, 72. For a similar opinion, see "His ...
Gail Bederman, 2008
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A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America
Lynch law. *Douglass, Frederick Lynch law in the South. No Am R 155:17 1892. Lynching of black people because they are black- Our Day 13:298 1894. Why is the Negro lynched? Reprinted by permission from "The A. M. E. church review" ...
‎1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LYNCH LAW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lynch law is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Motivating Forces Behind Black Lives Matter | GOOD
More than a hundred years earlier, Ida B. Wells, the famed anti-lynching activist, appeared in Chicago to deliver a speech called “Lynch Law in ... «GOOD Magazine, Jul 15»
2
All unions are highly vulnerable to criminality | The Australian
True, the public despises overpaid judges, but they don't share the ALP's conspiracy theory that there is no law but Tory lynch law. This stink ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
3
Clemson renounces Ben Tillman
... a founding trustee of the university and a former state governor and U.S. senator who spoke virulently against blacks, advocated for lynch law ... «Greenville News, Jul 15»
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SC House Speaker Jay Lucas against renaming Confederate …
... one of the university's founders and S.C. governor who spoke virulently against blacks, advocated for lynch law, pushed Jim Crow laws and ... «SCNow, Jul 15»
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Ida Wells, free speech, and the rule of law
... Ida Wells (1862-1931), who after being born into slavery in Mississippi became the leading voice documenting the horrors of lynch law in late ... «Overlawyered, Jul 15»
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Nigerian Law and Crypto-Mobocracy
His horrendous state told of a man that had been administered a lethal dose of the lynch law by a whole posse of apoplectic mob, for an ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Clemson faculty renew efforts to rename Tillman Hall
... is named after Benjamin Tillman, who advocated lynch law as an outspoken white supremacist, enacted Jim Crow laws in the state and was ... «SCNow, Jul 15»
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Black Woman's 'Lynching' Arrest Sparks Debate Over Controversial …
But most lynching victims have been killed by shotguns and pistols on lonely roads during the dark of night. "Lynch law" was common in the Old ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Jack Warner hires top British lawyer to fight his extradition
Anything that's against lynch law seems to me to be a good thing,” Fitzgerald said. On May 27, Warner was slapped with eight charges related ... «Curacao Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Jack Warner appoints lawyer Ed Fitzgerald QC, who previously …
"Anything that's against lynch law seems to me to be a good thing." Warner has been indicted by the US justice department on eight counts of ... «The Independent, Jun 15»

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