noun
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the act of outlawing or the state of being outlawed
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disregard for the law
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Etymology
Origin of outlawry
1350–1400; Middle English outlauerie < Anglo-French utlagerie, Medieval Latin utlagāria < Middle English outlage outlaw + Anglo-French -erie -ry, Medieval Latin -āria -ary
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It was their interpretation of Europe’s “myriad customs of outlawry, role reversal, and colorful mockery of the existing order,” as historian Penne Restad describes it.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2015
Wednesday’s 15-point release from the league office fills in a bunch of key details about the Saints’ outlawry.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2012
The Stones set the mold for the testosteronic bad-boy bands of the next 40 years; they made outlawry in.
From Time ● Oct. 26, 2010
What people sense, particularly in Davis' performance, is that she is getting off on her newly discovered taste and talent for gun-slinging outlawry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brok′en-man, one under outlawry, esp. in the Highlands and Border country; Brok′en-meat, the leavings of a banquet; Brok′enness.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Against all tradition, two M.P.s had insisted on debating the first reading of a traditional dummy bill against "clandestine outlawries," which is not debatable and never gets to a second reading.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the patriotic arguments for absenteeism; then come others, which may be classed under the head of "expediency reasons," such as debts, duns, outlawries, &c.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
Forfeitures and outlawries were to be pardoned, and the rights of private persons to be respected.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William
These are the patriotic arguments for absenteeism; then come others, which may be classed under the head of “expediency reasons,” such as debts, duns, outlawries, &c.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
Suppression of the social hell, that is to say, of all irreparable stains, of all social outlawries for which there is neither end nor hope—it is an essentially religious idea.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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