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What does Thuggee mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical, countable) A thug (member of band of assassins in India).
  2. (historical, uncountable) The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India.
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A very curious and valuable account of a little-known variety of thuggee, which possibly may still be practised.
For many years he was employed as Commissioner for the suppression of thuggee.
Had not the punishments you had received turned your heart from thuggee?
Yet thuggee, capable of exciting the mind so strongly, will not, cannot be annihilated!
That must really be the secret of the rise and development of thuggee.
This paper will examine the phenomenon designated thuggee by colonial authority in nineteenth-century India.

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