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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law;
[syn: lawlessness, outlawry]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Outlawry \Out"law`ry\, n.; pl. Outlawries. 1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being an outlaw. [1913 Webster] 3. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

outlawry n 1: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law [syn: lawlessness, outlawry]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "outlawry": anarchy, anomie, banishment, blackballing, clearance, criminalism, criminality, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, detachment, disbarment, discard, disfellowship, disjunction, displuming, disposal, disposition, ejection, elimination, eradication, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, fugitation, illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility, lawlessness, legal flaw, liquidation, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, purge, relegation, removal, riddance, rustication, severance, stripping, suspension, technical flaw, transportation, unfrocking, unlawfulness, withdrawal, wrongfulness
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

OUTLAWRY, Eng. law. The act of being put out of the protection of the law by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in refusing to become amenable to the court having jurisdiction. The proceedings themselves are also called the outlawry. 2. Outlawry may take place in criminal or in civil cases. 3 Bl. Com. 283; Co. Litt. 128; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4196. 3. In the United States, outlawry in civil cases is unknown, and if there are any cases of outlawry in criminal cases they are very rare. Dane's Ab. eh. 193, a, 34. Vide Bac. Ab. Abatement, B; Id. h.t.; Gilb. Hist. C. P. 196, 197; 2 Virg. Cas. 244; 2 Dall. 92.