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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a secret society in China that unsuccessfully attempted in 1900 to drive foreigners from the country by violence and force Chinese Christians to renounce their religion.

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  • proper noun A Chinese anti-imperial and anti-foreigner rebel of the early 1900s.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Approximate translation of Chinese (Mandarin) (yìhé) quán, (righteous harmonious) fists, name of a secret political organization.]

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Named Boxers by the west as their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony." and their symbol was a clenched fist.

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