I believe the word applies to a husbands attitude toward his own wife.
Not the whole city – just some members of the city council, though I suppose that in a way they symbolised the city.
I’d be afraid to use that in an actual conversation.
I’ve always been fond of absquatulate.
Exactly.
This is one of those words that only make sense in a context of the old-timey nobility. An uxorius husband was one so hen-pecked that he didn’t even mind not having a mistress, and didn’t fuck the serving wenches, even when unaccompanied by his wife. It could also refer to a husband so dominated by his wife that he listened to her advice over the advice of male advisors.
When you consider that many of these marriages were done for political reasons it makes a bit more sense to have a special word to refer to a man who actually loved his wife and didn’t sleep with other women.
I make handmade soaps, so I use the word…
Okay.* Fine*. I used it once. When I was describing the difference between making glycerin soaps and lye & fat soaps with the glycerin removed to my husband. It’s never come up again.
I left through the door, same way I came in 
Though we did take a picture of me standing by the window, as if I had just thrown someone out.
It seems they’re not sure exactly which window the people got thrown out.
Incidentally, the Defenestration of Prague that started the Thirty Years War was the second, and not the last, defenestration of Prague. I’m not sure what’s with the inhabitants of Prague and defenestrating people. But I was generally pretty careful around windows when I was there…
Isn’t that what John Ashcroft does to statues he doesn’t like?
Can you defrenstrate yourself? If not what’s the term for defrenestrating oneself??
auto-de-fénestration.
Suicide?
I use the term “fenestration” all the time. In medicine it means “to create a window”. Cervical disc disease is often addressed surgically via fenestration, which surgically decompresses the cervical spinal cord by creation of a small window. Surgical drapes that have a ready made window is called a fenestrated drape. Now, defenestration? Never heard of it until today.
Didn’t the Russians use defenestration as a means of execution, after they overthrew the Czar?
Do doorways count? ‘Cause I think I may have been defenestrated out of a coupla’ bars in the past.
Whats the word for when you throw someone off a bridge?
I believe that’s called billyjoemcallisteration.
Your floccinaucinihilipilification of the word only demosnstrates your hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Words like “defenstration” demonstrate that we need to be more praguematic about what words go in our dictionaries.
Yeah, I’m an AP European History nerd. What of it?
antidisestablishmentarianism
What’s wrong with “conservative”?
Okay. How about an interrobang? Anyone every actually seen one used?