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Definition of Thuggeries
1. thuggery [n] - See also: thuggery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thuggeries
Literary usage of Thuggeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Western Messenger: Devoted to Religion, Life, and Literature by Western Unitarian Association (1841)
"... thuggeries, Rick-burnings, and even blacker things than those. Vain also is
it to think that the misery of one class; of the great universal under class ..."
2. Chartism by Thomas Carlyle (1840)
"... thuggeries, Rick-burnings, and even blacker things than those. Vain also is
it to think that the misery of one class, of the great \ universal under ..."
3. Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume by Thomas Carlyle (1848)
"... thuggeries, Rick-burn^ ings, and even blacker things than those. Vain also is
it to think that the misery of one class, of the great universal under ..."
4. Chartism by Thomas Carlyle (1840)
"... thuggeries, Rick-burnings, and even blacker things than those. Vain also is
it to think that the misery of one class, of the great universal under class ..."