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- noun Plural form of
ruffianism .
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Examples
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He tolerated the little foibles, the small ruffianisms, the grave mistakes; the only thing he distinctly would not forgive was hardness of heart.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890
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"that the acts of the Boers justified the description of marauding ruffianisms."
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892
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