outlawryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈaʊtlɔːɹi/

名詞

outlawry (countable and uncountable, plural outlawries)

1. (law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1649, John Milton, Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels […]

     Notwithstanding any disposition made or to be made , by virtue or colour of any attainder , outlawry , fugacy , or other forfeiture

   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, pages 42–23:

     The palace was confiscated, and its rich furniture sold; the Marchese di Montefiore was summoned to appear on a charge of sorcery; he came not to answer the accusation, and sentence of outlawry was passed against him.

2. The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: outlawdom

   Antonym: inlawry

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 134:

     Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry.