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noun

Outlaw n.

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.

A person engaging habitually in criminal activity, especially theft or robbery; an habitually lawless person, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.

verb

Outlaw v. t. (past & past part. outlawed; pres. part. outlawing)

To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw.

To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. "Laws outlawed by necessity."

To render illegal; to ban, prohibit, or proscribe under sanction of some penalty.

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Etymology of 'Outlaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outlaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... a skillful swordsman, they say. You are little better than an outlaw. You say you love me more than life. Kill ...

— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... daughter of Loban or Logan of Drum-namarg, who, according to the Earl of Cromarty, "was one of the Earl of Ross's feuars. This superior having an innate enmity with Kenneth's race, was the cause that this Hector had no peaceable possession of Drumnamarg, but turning outlaw, retired to Eddirachillis, where he left a son called Henry, of whom are descended a race yet possessing there, called Sliochd Ionraic, or Henry's race." The second bastard was named Dugald Deargshuileach, "from his ...

— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie

... guess this is the end of Del Pinzo," remarked Nort, for the outlaw Greaser half-breed had been ...

— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker

... it pleases to violation of any impartial law, but it cannot in equity, whatever it may in practice, place any of its members outside the law; neither, most certainly, even if its competence did extend thus far, could it go the farther length of conferring on any one the right of doing wrong to an outlaw. It may even be doubted whether, if an outlaw were to injure any one still belonging to the society, any but the injured person himself would be warranted in retaliating. The sole reason that I can perceive why even he would is, that ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

... rifle-shot, and then began to calculate the chances of being hit in such a case. But why should he be shot at? What had he done that he should be arrested, threatened with jail and hanging, and treated like an outlaw generally? Whom did these men take him for? and who were they? By the manner in which they had spoken of a judge, they must represent the law in some way; but why he should be an object of their pursuit puzzled the ...

— Raftmates - A Story of the Great River • Kirk Munroe

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