Lawlessness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lawless \Law"less\, a.
     1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a
        lawless claim.
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              He needs no indirect nor lawless course. --Shak.


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     2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or
        of society; as, lawless men or behavior.
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     3. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
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              Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void.
                                                    --Pope.
        -- {Law"less*ly}, adv. -- {Law"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lawlessness
       n 1: a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from
            a failure of government) [syn: {anarchy}]
       2: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of
          the law [syn: {outlawry}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "lawlessness":
     anarchy, anomie, assumption, chaos, civil disobedience, conflict,
     contention, criminalism, criminality, difference, discord,
     disobedience, dissension, familiarity, frowardness, hubris,
     illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility,
     imposition, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement,
     insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, legal flaw,
     liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, mobocracy,
     naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation,
     nonobedience, ochlocracy, outlawry, passive resistance,
     presumption, presumptuousness, recusancy, strife, technical flaw,
     transgression, uncooperativeness, undue liberty, unduteousness,
     undutifulness, unlawfulness, unsubmissiveness, variance, violation,
     waywardness, willful disobedience, wrongfulness