| 单词 | vigilance work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvigilance work vigilance committee n. U.S. a self-appointed committee for the maintenance of justice and order in an imperfectly organized community; hence, vigilance man, vigilance work. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > vigilante committee vigilant men1824 committee of vigilance1837 vigilance committee1858 1858 N.Y. Tribune 30 Sept. As gross a violation of justice as vigilance committee or lynching mob was ever guilty of. 1871 J. Morley On Devel. Morals in Crit. Misc. 357 Whether the resource of the strongest be the thunders of Sinai or the rope of the Vigilance Committee. 1885 W. A. Coote in Life J. B. Paton (1914) xii. 211 The ordinary phases of vigilance work had failed to arouse their enthusiasm. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 84 They..had organized a Vigilance Committee before they built the town of Hamilton. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 85 The best citizens of these places were Vigilance men. < as lemmas |
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