LYNCH
What does "LYNCH" mean?
To kill someone, especially by hanging, by mob action and without a lawful trial.
Meanings
- To put a person to death by mob violence, without legal authority or trial. Historians have documented the campaigns waged to stop crowds from lynching the accused.
- As a surname (capitalized 'Lynch'), an Irish family name unrelated in person to the verb's later meaning. The film director David Lynch shares the surname but not its grim verb.
Did you know?
- The verb 'lynch' comes from a real person: 'Lynch law' is generally traced to Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace who, during the American Revolution, ran extralegal proceedings against suspected Loyalists - punishment outside any court.
Word origin
From 'Lynch law', 19th-century American usage for summary mob punishment, generally traced to Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice during the Revolutionary era who oversaw extralegal punishment of suspected Loyalists.
What it teaches
A crowd convinced of its own justice is still a crowd; law exists precisely because certainty is not the same as truth.
Quick facts
What does LYNCH mean?
To kill someone, especially by hanging, by mob action and without a lawful trial.
Is LYNCH a valid word?
Yes — LYNCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LYNCH?
LYNCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does LYNCH come from?
From 'Lynch law', 19th-century American usage for summary mob punishment, generally traced to Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice during the Revolutionary era who oversaw extralegal punishment of suspected Loyalists.
What can LYNCH teach us?
A crowd convinced of its own justice is still a crowd; law exists precisely because certainty is not the same as truth.
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