Danite
Americannoun
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a member of the tribe of Dan.
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a member of an alleged secret order of Mormons supposed to have been formed about 1837.
Etymology
Origin of Danite
Example Sentences
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"You are still in the very heart of Danite land."
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish
The ruins of the Danite village were found, also human bones, picked clean by wolves and vultures.
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish
There are scores of letters in Trumbull's correspondence calling for copies of Benjamin's speech, yet it had no effect in Illinois, the Danite vote being smaller in 1860 than it had been in 1858.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
Through the winter Joseph selected forty men for a city guard, from the old tried Danite veterans of the cause.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis
There were seventy-three carriages, besides the Danite escort.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis
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