Definition of "lynchings" []

• Plural form of lynching. (noun)

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• "Following an increase in lynchings during the early 1930s, the Commission conducted several studies on them."
• "It is a singular coincidence that as public sentiment has been hurled against political murders there has been a corresponding increase in lynchings on the charge of attacking white women."
• "Freakonomics does not discuss or mention the research explaining the decline in lynchings."