Lawless: Definition and part of speech

Lawless

  1. a. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
  2. a. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.
  3. a. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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