VIGILANCE COMMITTEE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Vigilance committee

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/vˈɪdʒələns kəmˈɪti/ Listen

noun

Vigilance n.

The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection. "And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread."

Guard; watch. (Obs.) "In at this gate none pass the vigilance here placed."

Vigilance committee, a volunteer committee of citizens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.

See images of 'Vigilance committee'

Etymology of 'Vigilance committee'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Vigilance committee" Quotes from Famous Books

... the State seceded, he was visited by a number of men who called themselves a vigilance committee. They were fierce-looking fellows, ...

— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin

... except to keep tumbling in the way of that detective party of Stanner's, and so throw them off the trail—ha, ha! The Judge here, I reckon, has had his share of fun, for while he was at Hennicker's trying to get some facts from Hennicker's pretty daughter, Stanner tried to get up some sort of vigilance committee of the stage passengers to burn down Hennicker's ranch out of spite, but the Judge here stepped in ...

— Snow-Bound at Eagle's • Bret Harte

... Queen's right to the crown, to name her successor, to denounce her as a heretic, or to say or do anything which should "alienate the hearts and minds of her Majesty's subjects from their dutiful obedience" to her. Later, the "Association," a vigilance committee, was formed by a large number of the principal people of the realm to protect Elizabeth against assassination. Not only prominent Protestants but many Catholic noblemen joined the organization to defend the Queen at ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... and proceeded to perfect his plans. He had some half a dozen young men, four young ladies, and eight or ten matrons, upon whom he could depend for help. These he organised into a vigilance committee charged with the duty of preventing miners and lumbermen from getting away to Slavin's. 'The critical moments will be immediately before and after dinner, and then again after the show is over,' he explained. 'The ...

— Black Rock • Ralph Connor

... arms, and cannon, and with the open declaration that they were bound for Kansas to hunt and kill "abolitionists." Similar belligerent preparations were in progress at all the river towns they touched. At Kansas City the vigilance committee of the blockade boarded and searched the boat for concealed "abolitionists." Finally arrived at Leavenworth, the Governor saw a repetition of the same scenes—parades and military control in the streets, fugitives within the inclosure ...

— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay

More quotes...