Meanings
nounexecutioning (countable and uncountable, plural executionings)
plural executionings
- countabledialectaluncountablecapital punishment
Executioning: for us exterminators, that’s the major league. The show.
1999 April 27, John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, 2:59 from the start, in Wes Archer, director, Death and Texas (King of the Hill), season 3, episode 22, spoken by Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick), 20th Century Fox1 more example
‘I never went from my word that I know of, and times have changed since you last did a little executioning on your own account. I should not rest in my grave were you strung up for me,’ groaned the schoolmaster.
1898, Matilda Betham-Edwards, chapter XXVIII, in A Storm-rent Sky: Scenes of Love and Revolution, London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, page 290
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