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Unlawfulness

noun
1.
The quality of failing to conform to law.





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"Unlawfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... towards a reconciliation with her father; but he would accept them on no other conditions than her adopting his religious creed, acknowledging his supremacy, denying the authority of the pope, and confessing the unlawfulness of her mother's marriage. It was long before motives of expediency, and the persuasion of friends, could wring from Mary a reluctant assent to these cruel articles: her compliance was rewarded by the return of her father's affection, but not immediately by her reinstatement ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... may he not grow wearisome? For is not this continual text of his, at bottom a rather barren one: How astonishing that in a time of Revolt and abrogation of all Law but Cannon Law, there should be such Unlawfulness? Intrepid Veto-of-Scoundrels, narrow-faithful, respectable, methodic man, work thou in that manner, since happily it is thy manner, and wear thyself away; though ineffectual, not profitless in it—then nor ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Unlawfulness" :   quality, illegality, shadiness, unlawful, lawfulness, illicitness, illegitimacy


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