outlaw
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noun
1.
a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
2.
a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law.
3.
a person under sentence of outlawry.
4.
a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist: one of the outlaws of country music.
5.
verb (used with object)
6.
to make unlawful or illegal: The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S.
7.
to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law: Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed.
8.
to prohibit: to outlaw smoking in a theater.
9.
to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.
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adjective
10.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an outlaw.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (formerly) a person excluded from the law and deprived of its protection |
| 2. | any fugitive from the law, esp a habitual transgressor |
| 3. | a wild or untamed beast |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to put (a person) outside the law and deprive of its protection |
| 5. | (in the US) to deprive (a contract) of legal force |
| 6. | to ban |
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Word Origin & History
outlaw
O.E. utlaga "one put outside the law" (and thereby deprived of its benefits and protections), from O.N. utlagi (n.) "outlaw," from utlagr (adj.) "outlawed, banished," from ut "out" + *lagu, pl. of lag "law" (see law).
"[G]if he man to deaðe gefylle, beo he þonne utlah" ["Laws of Edward & Guthrum," c.924]The verb is from O.E. utlagian. Meaning "one living a lawless life" is first recorded 1880.
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Example sentences
He was said to be acutely aware of his status as an outlaw.
His response to being an outlaw is to be an outlaw all the way, with no redeeming social or moral things that tie him to things.
Those who chose and choose to stay outside the compact become outlaw.
One time they were watching a movie on television featuring an outlaw who blasts away with a gun in each hand.
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