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incendiarism

noun as in arson

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But foregrounding the intense new waves of brutality that would greet the nascent civil rights movement, Tuskegee continued in its final lynching report that the terror was switching modes by “the development of other extra-legal means of control, such as bombings, incendiarism, threats and intimidation”.

There were about twenty so punished at Canton in 1843, for incendiarism.

To bring the day's work to a fitting close, Cockburn, while the heavens and surrounding country were still ruddy with the flames, entered a brothel and spent in lust and riot a night begun in incendiarism and pillage.

American soldiers were constantly driving innocent persons out of their homes by an alarm of fire, or by actual incendiarism, in order more easily to plunder the contents, and all attempts to check this atrocious practice had proved abortive.

Continental Army, Desertions, mutiny in, 73; complaints against officers, violations of parole, rascally surgeons, 73; Adams on quarrels of officers, 74; stealing of stores, 74; Washington on the character and inefficiency of officers, 74; plundering and incendiarism, 74.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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