Talk:defenestration

Misusage

Surely the second usage is a misusage. Defenestration is throwing something out of a window. In the second usage it is the windows that are being thrown out. — This unsigned comment was added by 213.78.104.139 (talk) at 11:38, 12 November 2005 (UTC).

Etymologically "removing windows" is just as sound an interpretation of the word. Fenestrator (talk) 15:49, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Removal of person from organization?

"(British) High profile removal of a person from an organization." Er, really? Isn't this Sunday Times example a humorous one-off? Equinox ◑ 19:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

RFV discussion

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Sense 3 seems dubiously close to a protologism. Any thoughts? This, that and the other 10:19, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Strange, I thought this had already passed RFV, but I don't see any history even of discussion. DAVilla 23:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

defenestrate's related sense passed RfV, though now that I look all of its citations actually use "defenestration." Dominic·t 12:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Cited now, I believe. Dominic·t 21:23, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. Equinox ◑ 11:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

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Word of the day: defenestration

Correction: According to the linked Wikipedia article, it was two regents and their secretary, not three regents, who were defenestrated.
I'd like to point out to my fellow Americans that we consider that the fourth floor. In Europe, the first floor is the floor directly above the ground floor, and so on. Even more impressive (since the three defenestrated men survived their fall), the linked Wikipedia article says the fall measured 70 feet. Nowadays, a story is typically just ten feet tall.
(Disclaimer: I didn't check the Wikipedia article's cited sources to verify the facts I quoted.) --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 10:37, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

@Dyspeptic skeptic: thank you, I've updated the image caption. — SMUconlaw (talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

New usage?

Similar to the British usage but clearly not the same. In reference to Trump's removal from social-media platforms: "Even by the low standard he has set, Trump is reportedly disengaged from the work of governance, and is instead mainlining television news and raging over his social-media defenestration." Thmazing (talk) 05:00, 12 January 2021 (UTC)