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unlaws

unlaws is the plural of unlaw.

unlaws is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unlaw.

Meaning of unlaw

Noun

unlaw (usually uncountable, plural unlaws)

  1. (obsolete, usually) A crime, an illegal action.
  2. (usually) Absence of law; lawlessness.
    • In regard to abortion we are now lawless. The law of the land is no law at all; that is, unlaw reigns.2012, Read I. Myers, The Great Canadian Oligarchy: Flaws in Our Freedoms
  3. (obsolete, usually) A fine exacted from a transgressor of the law.

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Questions about unlaws

What is unlaws the plural of?
Unlaws is the plural of unlaw.

Words near unlaws in the dictionary

  1. unlawfully
  2. unlawfulness
  3. unlawfulnesses
  4. unlawing
  5. unlawlike
  6. unlaws
  7. unlawyered
  8. unlawyerlike
  9. unlawyerly
  10. unlax
  11. unlaxed

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