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outlawdom

outlawdom noun: the state, condition, or jurisdiction of outlaws; lawlessness; outlaws collectively.

Noun

outlawdom (uncountable)

  1. The state, condition, or jurisdiction of outlaws; lawlessness; outlaws collectively.
    • The suddenness of the whole proceeding, the change from the monotonous regularity of ship life to that of wild outlawdom, had taken him so much by surprise that it deprived him of speech.1899, Guy Boothby, A Sailor's Bride, page 165
    • True History grants the readers glimpses into the psyche of a nineteenth-century Irishman, whose “brave parents was ripped from Ireland like teeth from the mouth of their own history," and who himself was driven to outlawdom by the injustices of the British colonial administration.2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty

Origin of outlawdom

From outlaw + -dom.

Questions about outlawdom

What does outlawdom mean?
Outlawdom means the state, condition, or jurisdiction of outlaws; lawlessness; outlaws collectively.
What part of speech is outlawdom?
Outlawdom is a noun.

Words near outlawdom in the dictionary

  1. outlaunching
  2. outlaw
  3. outlaw country
  4. outlaw state
  5. outlaw states
  6. outlawdom
  7. outlawed
  8. outlawing
  9. outlawish
  10. outlawism
  11. outlawness

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