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单词 lawlessness
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lawlessnessn.

Brit. /ˈlɔːləsnəs/, U.S. /ˈlɔləsnəs/, /ˈlɑləsnəs/
Etymology: < lawless adj. + -ness suffix.
The quality of being lawless; disregard of, or disobedience to, law or rule.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun]
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1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1310 Gluttonie, malice, pride, and covetize, And lawlesnes raigning with riotize.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Illegalité, .. lawlesnesse.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 200 A frightful instance of the lawlessness and ferocity of those marauders.
1860 J. F. Thrupp Introd. to Psalms II. 69 Unholiness and lawlessness of life.
1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 215 Byron, whose genius, daring, and melodramatic lawlessness, exercised what now seems such an amazing fascination over the least revolutionary of European nations.
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