| 单词 |
lawlessness |
| 释义 |
lawlessness|ˈlɔːlɪsnɪs| [f. lawless + -ness.] The quality of being lawless; disregard of, or disobedience to, law or rule.
1591Spenser M. Hubberd 1310 Gluttonie, malice, pride, and covetize, And lawlesnes raigning with riotize. 1611Cotgr., Illegalité, .. lawlesnesse. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 200 A frightful instance of the lawlessness and ferocity of those marauders. 1860J. Thrupp Introd. to Ps. II. 69 Unholiness and lawlessness of life. 1871Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 215 Byron, whose genius, daring, and melodramatic lawlessness, exercised what now seems such an amazing fascination over the least revolutionary of European nations. |

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