Noun – a throwing of a thing or a person out of a window
There truly is a word for everything, isn’t there? I came upon this word a few years ago, and I was just astounded that there was a proper word for throwing someone out a window. And it is specifically throwing them out a window. Not off a cliff, or off the roof, or even out the door. It’s out the window.
“These days defenestration is often used to describe the forceful removal of someone from public office or from some other advantageous position. History’s most famous defenestration, however, was one in which the tossing out the window was quite literal. On May 23, 1618, two imperial regents were found guilty of violating certain guarantees of religious freedom. As punishment, they were thrown out the window of Prague Castle. The men survived the 50-foot tumble into the moat, but the incident, which became known as the Defenestration of Prague, marked the beginning of the Bohemian resistance to Hapsburg rule that eventually led to the Thirty Years’ War.”
“Defenestration.” Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2018.
