单词 | lawlessness |
释义 | lawlessnessn. The quality of being lawless; disregard of, or disobedience to, law or rule. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] tyrantry1340 tyranny1475 licentiousness1553 lawlessness1591 exorbitance1611 exorbitancy1619 anarchism1642 outlawry1836 outlawry1869 jungle law1894 law of the jungle1894 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1591 |
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