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Webster 1913 Edition


Outlawry

Out′lawˊry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Outlawries
.
1.
The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.
2.
The state of being an outlaw.

Webster 1828 Edition


Outlawry

OUT'LAWRY

,
Noun.
The putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection; the punishment of a man who when called into court, contemptuously refuses to appear.

Definition 2024


outlawry

outlawry

English

Noun

outlawry (plural outlawries)

  1. (law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. [from 14th c.]
  2. The action characteristic of an outlaw; lawlessness. [from 19th c.]
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 134:
      Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry.

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