sansculottic

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Andres Bonifacio and his literally sansculottic gangs of cutthroats were, almost with impunity, soiling the fair name of Freedom with murder and mutilation, rape and rapine, awakening the worst passions of an excitable, impulsive people, destroying that essential respect for law and order, which to restore would take a holocaust of fire and blood, with a generation of severe training.

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  1. Pertaining to or involving sansculottism; revolutionary. Those sansculottic violent Gardes Françaises or Centre Grenadiers shall have their mittimus. Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. 1.

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  • Andres Bonifacio and his literally sansculottic gangs of cutthroats were, almost with impunity, soiling the fair name of Freedom with murder and mutilation, rape and rapine, awakening the worst passions of an excitable, impulsive people, destroying that essential respect for law and order, which to restore would take a holocaust of fire and blood, with a generation of severe training. —  The Social Cancer
 

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