Defenestration Definition

dē-fĕnĭ-strāshən
noun
A throwing out through a window.
Webster's New World
(UK) High profile removal of a person from an organization.
Wiktionary
(neologism, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Defenestration

Noun

Singular:
defenestration
Plural:
defenestrations

Origin of Defenestration

  • First attested circa 17th century, from Latin dē (“from, out”) + fenestra (“window”), historically, it was used as an act of political dissent, notably the Defenestrations of Prague.

    From Wiktionary

  • From de– Latin fenestra window

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Defenestration Sentence Examples

  • I'd have to watch for defenestration of myself during the deadly duel, however.

  • Finally these two councillors, together with Fabricius, secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the Hradcany into the moat below - an event known in history as the Defenestration of Prague.

  • This stands on the site where, in 1618, the Protestants attempted to build a church, the forcible prevention of which by Abbot Wolfgang Solander was the immediate cause of the protest of the Bohemian estates and the "defenestration" of the ministers Martinic and Slavata, which opened the Thirty Years' War.

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Words Starting With

DDEDEF

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With D and Ending With N

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14 Letter Words14 Letter Words Starting With D14 Letter Words Ending With N