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Noun
1. vigilance committee; vigilante corps
Wikipedia definition
2. VigilanteA vigilante is a private individual (or group of individuals) who presumes to carry out extralegal punishment in defiance of existing law. Lynching is a principal form of vigilantism and was practiced widely in the United States particularly -- though not exclusively -- as an attempt to control and intimidate non-white and non-Christian citizens. Posses comitatus represent another form of vigilantism.
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