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danite

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This article is about the Mormon group. "Danite" can also refer to a member of the Tribe of Dan . The Danites were a fraternal organization founded by Latter Day Saint members in June 1838, in the town of Far West in Caldwell County, Missouri . During their ...

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Danite \Dan"ite\, n. A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan. --Judges xiii. 2. [So called in remembrance of the prophecy in Gen. xlix. 17, ``Dan shall be a serpent by the way,'' etc.] One of a secret association of Mormons, bound ...

Usage examples of danite.

If some modern-day freelance Danite was behind all this, Robin Torr wanted nothing to do with it.

It is at this day certain, also, that about this time, the prophet instituted an order in the Church called the Danite Band.

To this day, in the lonely ranches of the West, the name of the Danite Band, or the Avenging Angels, is a sinister and an ill-omened one.

Stenhouse relieves me of any anxiety I had felt in regard to having my swan-like throat cut by the Danites, but thinks my wholesale denunciation of a people I had never seen was rather hasty.

They had at first considered staying around Salt Lake, but the stories they heard of Porter Rockwell, Bill Hickman, and others of the Danites, had given them the impression it might become extremely unhealthy in that region.