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defenestration

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de·fen·es·tra·tion  (d-fn-strshn)
n.
An act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

[From de- + Latin fenestra, window.]

defenestration
the act of hurling from a window, especially people.
See also: Killing
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Noun1.defenestrationdefenestration - the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
expulsion, riddance, ejection, exclusion - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"


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Others feel that the Constitution's defenestration is as close as an open window.
Worse, much of the profession has embarked on a postmodernist "futulism," a venture that is nothing less than the defenestration of the Enlightenment.
These events are checkpoints in the period of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation that will be remembered as long as those surrounding the Diet of Worms and the Defenestration at Prague.
 
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