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Outlawry   /ˈaʊtlˌɔri/   Listen
noun
Outlawry  n.  (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.
3.
Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.





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"Outlawry" Quotes from Famous Books



... ante-nuptial settlement, nor was he aware of the old man's quixotic design in coming between Braden and the girl he loved. To Simmy it was nothing short of brigandage, a sort of moral outlawry. Old Templeton Thorpe deserved a coat of tar and feathers, and there was no word for the punishment that ought to be meted out to Mrs. Tresslyn. He tried to think of what ought to be done to her, and, getting as far as boiling oil, gave up ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... evident, however, that none of these provisions are of any real importance, as compared with those described previously. They represent the logical completion of Germany's outlawry and economic subjection to the convenience of the Allies; but they do not add substantially to ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes
... who deserved to be shot. Talleyrand brought them together, and they soon came to an understanding. The conspiracy of Brumaire would have failed at the deciding moment but for the Abbe. For Bonaparte, when threatened with outlawry, lost his head, and Sieyes quietly told him to drive out the hostile deputies. Thereupon the soldier, obeying the man of peace, drew his sword and ...
— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... (Canons of Ecgbright). No meat might be given into their hands even in charity, although it might be laid before them on the ground. Those who sheltered them incurred a heavy "were gild," and endangered the loss of their estates; and finally, in case of obstinacy, outlawry and banishment followed. ...
— Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... warring of Spain against the powers of the world, not at home but in her western possessions, finally led to that outlawry which under the name of buccaneers terrorized the Caribbean Sea during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1625 the island of St. Christopher was settled by the buccaneers to establish a base; and later ...
— Pirates and Piracy • Oscar Herrmann


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