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Definition of Lawbreaker
1. Noun. Someone who violates the law.
Generic synonyms: Criminal, Crook, Felon, Malefactor, Outlaw
Derivative terms: Violate
Definition of Lawbreaker
1. n. One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
Definition of Lawbreaker
1. Noun. One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lawbreaker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawbreaker
Literary usage of Lawbreaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Review by Richard Acland Armstrong (1883)
"THE lawbreaker. are periods in the world's history, for the I most part in the
earlier stages of civilisation, when the Lawgiver is the great want of the ..."
2. Behind the Screens: An English Woman's Impressions of Japan by Evelyn Adam (1910)
"... VIII THE lawbreaker AND THE LAW THE only people in Japan who are not properly
overawed by the police are the very people that should be most fearful of ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"I think that the only duty a law observer owes to a lawbreaker Is "not to
Intentionally Injure him." The disposition of many drivers of dangerous machines ..."
4. Textbook of Aerial Laws and Regulations for Aerial Navigation, International by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"On receipt of a wireless message that the lawbreaker is at large, ... In this
case the aerial policeman will order the lawbreaker by radio phone to land at ..."
5. Proceedings Before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections (1905)
"So. continuing the use of that expression, if Senator Smoot were in law to be
defined as a lawbreaker, or a defier of law. what would be the duty of the ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"In this edition, " Love in a Mask " appears for the first time in America. Cloth.
Price, $1.00 net. Lady Eleanor: lawbreaker BY ..."