OUTLAWRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outlawry mean? 

• OUTLAWRY (noun)
  The noun OUTLAWRY has 1 sense:

1. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law

  Familiarity information: OUTLAWRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTLAWRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lawlessness; outlawry

Hypernyms ("outlawry" is a kind of...):

illegality (unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute)

Derivation:

outlaw (declare illegal; outlaw)

 Context examples 

On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)