Law"less*ness

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lawless \Law"less\, a.
   1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a
      lawless claim.
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            He needs no indirect nor lawless course. --Shak.
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   2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or
      of society; as, lawless men or behavior.
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   3. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
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            Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void.
                                                  --Pope.
      -- {Law"less*ly}, adv. -- {Law"less*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "lawlessness":
      anarchy, anomie, assumption, chaos, civil disobedience, conflict,
      contention, criminalism, criminality, difference, discord,
      disobedience, dissension, familiarity, frowardness, hubris,
      illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility,
      imposition, indiscipline, indocility, infraction, infringement,
      insubordination, intractability, lawbreaking, legal flaw,
      liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, mobocracy,
      naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation,
      nonobedience, ochlocracy, outlawry, passive resistance,
      presumption, presumptuousness, recusancy, strife, technical flaw,
      transgression, uncooperativeness, undue liberty, unduteousness,
      undutifulness, unlawfulness, unsubmissiveness, variance, violation,
      waywardness, willful disobedience, wrongfulness
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