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unˈlawfulness
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†1. Unlawful (or disloyal) conduct. Obs.
c1500Melusine i. 14 Ye ne oughte to retche ne care more of the vnlawfulness [F. desleaulté] & falshed of oure fader. 1531Tindale Exp. 1 John (1537) 53 That the Englyshe calleth here vnryghteousnesse the Greke called Anomia, vnlawfulnesse or breakynge y⊇ lawe. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 28 The Formall part of sinne, being nothing else but a deformitie..and vnlawfulnesse in our naturall condition.
2. The quality of being unlawful; illegality.
1593Sidney's Arcadia iii. (1922) II. 48 Now that love..had awaked her spirits, and perchance the very unlawfulnes of it had a litle blowne the coale. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §18. 25 That shewes the frailty of the person, not the unlawfulnesse of the action. 1673S. Dugard (title), Marriages of Cousin Germans, Vindicated from the Censures of Unlawfullnesse and Inexpediency. 1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 522 The treatise I sent you of the Unlawfulness of Limited Episcopacy is answered. a1779Warburton Alliance ii. Wks. 1788 IV. 190 The unlawfulness of tithes,..the unlawfulness of oaths. 1824Mackintosh Sp. Ho. Comm. 1 June, Wks. 1846 III. 415 The unlawfulness and nullity of the proceedings. 1874Motley Barneveld II. xviii. 86 Doctors ever wanting to prove the unlawfulnesse of law which interferes with the purposes of a despot.
b. Illegitimacy. (Todd. 1818.) |