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secret societySociety with membership by invitation only, often involving initiation rites, secret rituals, and dire punishments for those who break the code. Often founded for religious reasons or mutual benefit, some have become the province of corrupt politicians or gangsters, like the Mafia, Ku Klux Klan, and the Triad. See also freemasonry. |
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| I am sure that years ago I should have laughed at any one who had told me that I, Georgina Croxton, should ever belong to such a thing as a secret society, even though it had some connection with so harmless and excellent an organisation as the Primrose League. He has turned what was clean, common-sense butchery among his fellow-barbarians into a very modern and scientific secret society of assassins. "Looks like a secret society got hold of them," said Bert. |
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