(n): The act of chucking someone out of a window with the intention of causing bodily harm.
Writing my Cultural History paper right now. My topic is Comenius, but maybe I should have chosen defenestration. The Czech Republic is actually credited as the birthplace of this particular kind of punishment. Although, I'm pretty sure people have been getting shoved out of windows for centuries. The famous "Defenestration of Prague" started the Thirty Years War, so maybe that's why the CR gets the credit.
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