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antilynching

antilynching adjective: opposed to the practice of lynching.

Adjective

antilynching (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to the practice of lynching
    • Writing from London, to the Chicago Inter Ocean, Nov. 25, 1894, the distinguished compiler of our last census, Hon. Robert P. Porter, gives the American people a most interesting review of the antilynching crusade in England, submitting editorial opinions from all sections of England and Scotland...1895, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record
  2. Prohibiting the practice of lynching
    • The year before, he donated his earnings from his performance in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, and in 1945 he worked to get Harry Truman to support an antilynching law.1998 March 27, Cara Jepsen, “Days of the Week”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of antilynching

From anti- + lynching.

Questions about antilynching

What does antilynching mean?
Antilynching means opposed to the practice of lynching.
What part of speech is antilynching?
Antilynching is an adjective.

Words near antilynching in the dictionary

  1. Antilyas
  2. antilymphangiogenic
  3. antilymphocyte
  4. antilymphocytic
  5. antilymphoma
  6. antilynching
  7. antilyses
  8. antilysin
  9. antilysins
  10. antilysis
  11. antilyssic

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