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- noun dialectal A
scolding ; a severereprimand orreproof .
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Examples
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Unity has subjected Iain Dale's peculiar loss of marbles and rampant Gordonophobia to the throughgoing frisking and frottage it deserves.
Archive 2007-07-15 2007
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They give them a throughgoing roasting that's what.
Archive 2007-01-07 2007
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He understood that the RDP was the programme which could lay the basis for a throughgoing transformation of our society.
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The machine table also features throughgoing tap holes for attaching additional aids.
2. Construction of a Shaping Machine Gnter Hanisch 1993
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The throughgoing bores and locator grooves of the machine table become soiled extremely quickly.
5. Servicing and Looking After the Machine Gnter Hanisch 1993
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This is ensured by the throughgoing bores with internal thread in the table surface.
6. Labour Safety Measures Gnter Hanisch 1993
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It's the form where composers put their loftiest ideas and worked them out in the most throughgoing way, using all the fabulous resources of colour that an orchestra can give.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Ivan Hewett 2011
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It's the form where composers put their loftiest ideas and worked them out in the most throughgoing way, using all the fabulous resources of colour that an orchestra can give.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Ivan Hewett 2011
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I suspect that opponents of stare decisis envision an alternative a little less throughgoing than the one suggested in your hypo — namely, precedent’s precedent and is applied under usual circumstances, doctrine isn’t reinvented in every case from scratch, but, if a majority of the Court thinks a precedent’s wrong, they can rule so even if the decision they’re overturning wasn’t an absolutely grotesque misreading of the Constitution or relevant statute.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Supreme Court Without Stare Decisis: 2009
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I suspect that opponents of stare decisis envision an alternative a little less throughgoing than the one suggested in your hypo — namely, precedent’s precedent and is applied under usual circumstances, doctrine isn’t reinvented in every case from scratch, but, if a majority of the Court thinks a precedent’s wrong, they can rule so even if the decision they’re overturning wasn’t an absolutely grotesque misreading of the Constitution or relevant statute.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Supreme Court Without Stare Decisis: 2009
hernesheir commented on the word throughgoing
A noun you don't meet every day.
Example sentences use this term adjectivally.
November 14, 2012