crucifying
Meaning
of Crucify
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And you have acted not well against the just man, because you have not repented of crucifying him, but also have pierced him with a spear.
And the same injustice applies to martyrdom—I must always be denied the gridiron and the Cross, because nobody in his right mind would dream of crucifying the bourgeois Gino.
Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful (hence the term excruciating, literally "out of crucifying"), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal.
He also says that the Roman soldiers would amuse themselves by crucifying criminals in different positions.
Inevitably the Romans swept into Judea with their armies, slaughtering some, crucifying others, and taking still others into slavery.
Its spokespersons have already begun crucifying the government just on the basis of the newspaper's version.