Noun: hanging
| Singular | hanging |
| Plural | hangings |
Sample Sentences
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Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
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The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
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No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows? [1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London, page 37:]
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Public hangings were abolished in 1868 by Act of Parliament. [1958 May 26, “Excursions Extraordinary”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:]
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Along with trial by ordeal, hanging was the most effective deterrent that could be devised in an age without police or prisons. [1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 175:]
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It was just too bad that Milosevic died of "natural" causes in his cell in 2006 before he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, although a hanging would have been preferable. [2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2022:]
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The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
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I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.
Nouns inflected like hanging
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang + -ing. Compare Old English hengen (“hanging”) and hōhing (“hanging”). See: Middle English Nouns '
hangynge', Old English Nouns '
hengen'.