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Definition of Dacoities
1. dacoity [n] - See also: dacoity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dacoities
Literary usage of Dacoities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Administration of the Police by Madras (India : State). Police Dept (1881)
"The following Statement shows that the number of dacoities has !i from 432 in
1879 to ... The number Appendix A, pages alum— dacoities committed in 1875, ..."
2. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"... its suppression—Female infanticide—Regulation of marriage expenses—Political
import of dacoities in Deccan—Gypsy tribes—Occasional occurrence ..."
3. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"... its suppression—Female infanticide—Regulation of marriage expenses—Political
import of dacoities in Deccan—Gypsy tribes—Occasional occurrence of serious ..."
4. Life in the Mofussil; Or, The Civilian in Lower Bengal by G. Graham (1878)
"GRAIN dacoities.—ARBORICULTURE.—HOME ON MEDICAL LEAVE. THE hours I actually spent
in Court in ... dacoities ..."
5. Some Records of Crime: Being the Diary of a Year, Official and Particular by Charles Hervey (1892)
"... gave me the opportunity to say with reference to the order for its abolition,
that I had been sanguine that the dacoities of a systematized nature in ..."
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