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unlawful

adj

Etymology

From Middle English unlawful; equivalent to un- + lawful.

  1. inherited from unlawful

Definitions

  1. Prohibited

    Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal)

    • He was charged with unlawful use of a car.
    • That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unlawful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unlawful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at unlawful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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