vigilantism

English

Alternative forms

• vigilanteism

Etymology

vigilante +‎ -ism

Noun

vigilantism (countable and uncountable, plural vigilantisms)

1. The activities of a vigilante; acting outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.
   • 2016 February 6, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, retrieved 8 February 2016:

     Mr Shapiro also criticised the way Israel governs in the occupied lands, saying “too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes unchecked,” he said.

Translations

activities of vigilante

• Finnish: vigilantismi, omankädenoikeus (fi)
• German: Vigilantismus m, Vigilantentum n, Selbstjustiz (de) f
• Hungarian: önbíráskodás (hu), önkéntes/önjelölt polgárőrség, önkényes igazságosztás/rendfenntartás, vigilantizmus