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- noun Plural form of
outlawry .
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Examples
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Mawbey obtained leave to bring in a bill for preventing "clandestine outlawries," of which nothing more is known.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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But such a remote possibility should not prevent a resort to heroic methods in dealing with the outlawries of our civilization.
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Forfeitures and outlawries were to be pardoned, and the rights of private persons to be respected.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892
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Suppression of the social hell, that is to say, of all irreparable stains, of all social outlawries for which there is neither end nor hope -- it is an essentially religious idea.
Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885
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Among other outlawries they decreed those of the three de Lacys, the chiefs of their name, in Meath and Ulster.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Among other outlawries they decreed those of the three de Lacys, the chiefs of their name, in Meath and Ulster.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Whatever might have been the motives of conduct in the robber, who thus audaciously announced himself the member of a club notorious on the frontiers of Georgia and among the Cherokees for its daring outlawries, the youth determined to keep up the game so long as it continued such.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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But his Lordship at that time not being able to offer sufficient proofs of the le - versal of the said outlawries, deferred doing so, until 5th October, 1721, when, by petition, he prayed the aforesaid premises to be taken into consideration, and to grant him a re-hearing.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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Following the now common direction of all eyes, he discerned a body of mounted and armed men, winding on their way to the encampment, in whose well-known uniform he recognised a detachment of the "Georgia Guard," a troop kept, as they all well knew, in the service of the state, for the purpose not merely of breaking up the illegal and unadvised settlements of the squatters upon the frontiers, upon lands now known to be valuable, but also of repressing and punishing their frequent outlawries.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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U9.x. f Fa*jaw Phillips, in bis treatise on capiases and outlawries* saye, '• the conveyance by lease and release was first contrived by Shr Frakcis More, at the request of Lord Norms, that his rela - tions might not know what settlement he had. "
The Monthly mirror: reflecting men and manners; with strictures on their epitome, the stage .. 1795
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