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单词 outlawry
释义 out·law·ry
\-rē, -ri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English outlagerie, outlagarie, outlawerie, from Anglo-French utlagerie & Medieval Latin utlagaria, from Middle English outlage outlaw + Old French -erie -ery & Latin -aria -ary respectively
1.
 a. : the act of outlawing : the act or process of putting a person outside the protection of the law
  < by proscription and bills of outlawry — Shakespeare >
  — compare fugitation
 b. : banishment, exile
  < on his outlawry was allowed five days to leave the country — E.A.Freeman >
 c. : the act or process of making something illegal
  < the outlawry of war >
  < the outlawry of atomic weapons >
2. : the state of living outside the law : freedom from legal or conventional restraint
 < whose gay impudence of outlawry had in its time set the underworlds of five continents buzzing — Leslie Charteris >
 < Quincy … was liberty, outlawry, the endless delight of impressions given by nature for nothing — Henry Adams >
3. : the act of barring a debt, claim, or right (as by operation of a statute of limitations)
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