Usually means: Enforcement without legal authority, independently.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. vigilantism: Merriam-Webster
  2. vigilantism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vigilantism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vigilantism: Vocabulary.com
  5. Vigilantism, vigilantism: Wordnik
  6. vigilantism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vigilantism: Wiktionary
  8. vigilantism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vigilantism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vigilantism: Dictionary.com
  11. Vigilantism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. vigilantism: Rhymezone
  13. vigilantism: FreeDictionary.org
  14. vigilantism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. vigilantism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Vigilantism: Legal dictionary

(Note: See vigilante as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vigilantism)

▸ noun:  The activities of a vigilante; acting outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.

Similar:
revengism, moral police, badvocate, revanchist, vindictiveness, hactivist, retributionist, activist judge, social justice warrior, hacktivist, more...

Opposite:
law enforcement, justice, legal system, rule of law

Types:
self-defense, lynching, mob justice, vigilante justice, more...

Phrases:
Internet vigilantism, Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism, more...

Adjectives:
american, white, academic, western, such, spontaneous, cultural, instant, local, violent, control

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Similar:
revengism, moral police, badvocate, revanchist, vindictiveness, hactivist, retributionist, activist judge, social justice warrior, hacktivist, more...

Opposite:
law enforcement, justice, legal system, rule of law

Types:
self-defense, lynching, mob justice, vigilante justice, more...

Phrases:
Internet vigilantism, Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism, more...

Adjectives:
american, white, academic, western, such, spontaneous, cultural, instant, local, violent, control



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