1. The act of dismissing someone from a position in church
2. The act of dismissing someone from a position in life via throwing them out of a window. This term became popular due to three Bohemian (Czech) Kings being thrown out windows.
2. The act of dismissing someone from a position in life via throwing them out of a window. This term became popular due to three Bohemian (Czech) Kings being thrown out windows.
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/di ˈfɛnɪstreɪt/
verb
1.
RARE
throw (someone) out of a window.
"she had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had been suicide"
2.
remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
"the overwhelming view is that he should be defenestrated before the next election"
/di ˈfɛnɪstreɪt/
verb
1.
RARE
throw (someone) out of a window.
"she had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had been suicide"
2.
remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
"the overwhelming view is that he should be defenestrated before the next election"
1. Some people are so drunk that they let defenestration happen to stray cats and dogs without any hesitation.
2. The president experienced defenestration by the government due to poor management of the economic activities.
2. The president experienced defenestration by the government due to poor management of the economic activities.
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Pete rehearsed what he thought was the safest way to break the bad news to Toan, while feeling shit scared of the defenestration that may follow.
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Get the Mental Defenestration mug.When the Overton Window shifts around people that don't change themselves yet end up under different labels afterwards after being thrown out/defenestrated of the original windowframe.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Overton Defenestration occurs when the window throws you out itself while you do nothing in response to the Overton Window shifting around you.
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
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Get the Overton Defenestration mug.John deforestation is a 62 year old deceased man. He held true spite towards trees and any form of foliage, to the point in which he had lopped down every tree in a 67 mile radius of his house. He later committed suicide, but not through hanging due to his pure hatred for trees.
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