单词 | law-breaker |
释义 | law-breakern. One who violates the law. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker waryOE wandelard1338 breakerc1384 malefactora1438 law-breakerc1440 misgovernora1449 malfetoura1450 wrongdoer1501 contravener1567 criminal1610 contravenary1614 mug1865 crook1879 outlaw1880 punter1891 kink1914 heavy man1926 crim1927 antisocial1945 villain1960 banduluc1977 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > impiety > [noun] > person member of Satanc1384 firebranda1425 law-breakerc1440 malignant1597 a1050 Liber Scintill. (1889) ii. 9 Þar healdan geþyld we na scylan ac wiðstandan þam lahbrecan.] c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 289/2 Lawe brekare, legirumpus. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3550 Lawbrekers and ydolatrers with bolde visage blamed hee. 1545 Primer Kynges Maiestie (STC 16034) sig. Piiiv Deliuer me..out of the hand of th lawe breaker. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 77 Thou art a Robber, A Law-breaker, a Villaine: yeeld thee Theefe. View more context for this quotation 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 141 That Tongue..which now growes hoarse with flattering the great Law-breakers. 1876 Oxford Bible-Helps, Mountains It was on Mount Ebal that the cursing of the law-breakers took place. Derivatives law-breaking n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > violating the law unlawfula1387 trespassant1587 perfract1616 rumpant1621 transgressive1646 violatory1687 violent1697 violative1745 law-breaking1767 transgressinga1812 transgredient1837 infringing1897 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > violation of law unlawOE wrongc1270 surfeitc1400 violation1433 wrongdoing1480 unlawfulnessa1500 transgressing1535 contravention1579 anomy1595 non-reason1597 contravening1645 law-breaking1881 1767 Speech against Suspending & Disp. Prerogative in Hansard Parl. Hist. (1813) XVI. 258 There was no such distinction in the days, when the law-making and the law-breaking prerogative walked forth at noon tide. 1881 Times 9 Apr. 11/5 Temporal Courts would deal more timidly with clerical law-breaking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1440 |
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