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Danite   Listen
noun
Danite  n.  
1.
A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
2.
One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things. (U. S.)






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"Danite" Quotes from Famous Books



... denounced the Government of the United States, as being utterly corrupt, and about to pass away and be replaced by the government of God, to be administered by his servant Joseph. It is at this day certain, also, that about this time, the prophet instituted an order in the Church called the Danite Band. This was to be a body-guard about the person of their sovereign, sworn to obey his commands as ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson

... ruffian boasted of what he had done, and settled down for a brief time to the customary enjoyments of the rough when in town. He spent his money, hired out as a Danite, killed a couple of men whom the Mormons wanted removed, and soon got so bad that he had to leave. Once more he headed west to California, and once more he started back north from San Francisco, for reasons satisfactory to himself. While in California, as ...
— The Story of the Outlaw - A Study of the Western Desperado • Emerson Hough



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