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Definition of Lawless

1. Adjective. Without law or control. "The system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic"

2. Adjective. Lax in enforcing laws. "A wide-open town"

3. Adjective. Disobedient to or defiant of law. "Lawless bands roaming the plains"

Definition of Lawless

1. a. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.

Definition of Lawless

1. Adjective. Not governed by any law. ¹

2. Adjective. Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal. ¹

3. Adjective. Not restrained by the law or by discipline; unruly, disorderly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lawless

1. having no system of laws [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawless

lawgivers lawgiving lawgivings lawin lawine lawines lawing lawings lawins lawk

lawks lawks a-mercy lawl lawland lawlands lawless (current term) lawlessly lawlessness lawlessnesses lawlike

lawmaker lawmakers lawmaking lawmakings lawman lawmen lawmonger lawmongers lawn lawn-chair

Literary usage of Lawless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"Ruin of Mr. lawless. Lord Kenyon serviceable in repress- ing petti- fu-ging. tended his Court, " had lit up a flame of indignation in his breast, ..."

2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"EMILY lawless [BORN in Ireland in 1845, the daughter of the third Lord ... It was as a delightful novelist that Emily lawless first became known to the ..."

3. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"EMILY lawless, daughter of the third Lord Cloncurry and sister of the present peer, ... Miss lawless must rank among the first, of Irish novelists. ..."

4. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"through Justice and Law, are highly honourable: injustice and lawless i *• i -r 1-11 -i 11 .- law: unjust and lawlessness, highly dishonourable : the former ..."

5. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see COMPOSE. a. In grammar: parse, construe; spec. scan. anarchistic, a. red (colloq.), lawless; spec. nihilistic ..."

6. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... but appropriated to different purposes, as intended by the Legislature,—are all facts, evincing that a restless ambition and a lawless thirst of power, ..."

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