Outlawry \Out"law`ry\, n.; pl. {Outlawries}. 1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being an outlaw. [1913 Webster] 3. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality. [PJC]