Definition of "filibusterism" []

• Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war. (noun)
• The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land. (noun)
• The practice of delaying legislation by filibuster or other obstructive tactics. (noun)

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• "The other is, that while she may indulge with impunity the spirit of filibusterism, or lawless and violent adventure, upon"
• "It has relieved those Republics from the fear of filibusterism which had been formerly incited against Central America and Mexico in the interest of slave extension, and it has produced an impression of the stability of our institutions and of our public strength sufficient to dissipate the fears of our friends or the hopes of those who wish us ill."
• "American states bordering on Nicaragua being in sore dread of their ambitious neighbor, while the agents of the Vanderbilt Company worked industriously to stir up a revolt against this soaring eagle of filibusterism."