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unlawfulness

noun

Etymology

From un- + lawful + -ness.

  1. inherited from laweful
  2. formed as unlawfulness — “un- + lawful + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being unlawful.

    • Near-synonyms: criminality, feloniousness, illicitness
    • They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.

  2. An unlawful act.

    • Near-synonyms: offense; outrage

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unlawfulness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA