Etymology
Origin of ruffianism
Example Sentences
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I always had a great liking for him, and deem him entitled to great public gratitude for his services in the rescue of Kansas from what was known as Border Ruffianism.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
Ruffianism was crushed, the Jesuits were banished, the nobility were taught to respect the civil law, the peasantry were encouraged.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
Emigration flowed in rapidly, both from the South and the North, and the terrible days of Border Ruffianism followed.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Ruffianism in the middle ages bears about it a stamp of feudality which goes far to disguise its lawlessness, and even to excuse its immorality.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
The Preparatory Schools of Ruffianism are similarly borne with.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
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