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outlaw

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1. outlaw - Noun

2. outlaw - Verb

3. outlaw - Adjective Satellite

4. Outlaw - Proper noun

Meaning

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.

To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe.

To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. Ronald Reagan

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. George Mikes

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. Gertrude Stein

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. Ani DiFranco

If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends. Baldur von Schirach

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. Don DeLillo

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