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RE: I have been waiting my entire career to use that wordin a technical context.
Subject:RE: I have been waiting my entire career to use that wordin a technical context. From:<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:13:30 -0800
The O.E.D seems to like your reference too...
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Pronunciation: /diËfÉnÉËstreÉÊÉn/
Etymology: modern < Latin de- prefix 1a, 1b+ fenestra a window: so in modern French.
The action of throwing out of a window.
"Defenestration of Prague, the action of the Bohemian insurgents who, on the 21st of May 1618, broke up a meeting of Imperial commissioners and deputies of the States, held in the castle of the Hradshin, and threw two of the commissioners and their secretary out of the window; this formed the prelude to the Thirty Years' War."
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-BH
-----Original Message----- From: B.J. Smith
Great use of the word! I always think of an old history lesson, the details of which I'd long since forgotten, about the
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