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thuggeeism, thuggee a semi-religious Hindu cult with a highly organized system of murder and robbery, suppressed in India in the 19th century. Also thuggery. — thug, n. See also: Hinduism
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It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway. Then he told us he was a Hajji--had been three times to Mecca--come in from French Africa, and that he'd met the nigger by the wayside--just like a case of thuggee, in India--and the nigger had poisoned him. |
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