Deserving of or suitable for punishment by hanging; heinous or extremely criminal in nature.
Compound of 'hang' and the Old English suffix '-worthy' meaning 'deserving of'; primarily a historical legal term from medieval and early modern periods.
Medieval law codes used 'hangworthy' to classify crimes, showing how language encoded punishment hierarchies—murder might be hangworthy while theft might earn whipping, revealing a society's moral values through word choice.
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