Definitions
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- noun the activities of a
vigilante
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws
Etymologies
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Examples
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Actually, it features no super powers, and the vigilantism is more Home Alone than Death Wish.
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And I wouldn ` t even use the word vigilantism, although you know, it ` s really rooted in that word vigilant, which is a good thing for parents.
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Harper said previous government refrained from stiffening the law because "they wanted to avoid vigilantism, which is a genuine threat to the rule of law."
Thestar.com - Home Page Linda Diebel 2011
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Harper said previous government refrained from stiffening the law because "they wanted to avoid vigilantism, which is a genuine threat to the rule of law."
Thestar.com - Home Page Linda Diebel 2011
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And even if what happened last week can be called vigilantism, we should all remember that movie audiences tended to side with the Charles Bronson-type characters in "Death Wish" and similar movies.
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And even if what happened last week can be called vigilantism, we should all remember that movie audiences tended to side with the Charles Bronson-type characters in "Death Wish" and similar movies.
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Having been raised to believe that guns are bad and that aggressive self-defense aka vigilantism, was the province of reactionary yahoos and bigots,
ShrinkWrapped 2009
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Having been raised to believe that guns are bad and that aggressive self-defense aka vigilantism, was the province of reactionary yahoos and bigots,
ShrinkWrapped 2009
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Any public intervention in the field is dismissed as "vigilantism".
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Any public intervention in the field is dismissed as "vigilantism".
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