Lynchee

//lɪnˈt͡ʃiː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The victim of a lynching.

    "The lynchee's agony is not merely a convenient trope for romantic despair here: it is a preexisting condition, a racewide image of abjection that the loss of a lover serves to reactivate."

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"The lynchee's agony is not merely a convenient trope for romantic despair here: it is a preexisting condition, a racewide image of abjection that the loss of a lover serves to reactivate."

Etymology

From lynch + -ee.

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