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Definition: Unlawfulness |
UnlawfulnessNoun1. The quality of failing to conform to law. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unlawfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1650. (references) |
| Antonym: lawfulness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Illegality | Illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister. |
Wrong | Undueness; wrongdoing (vice); unlawfulness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unlawfulness |
| English words defined with "unlawfulness": illegality, Illegalness, illegitimacy. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | I need not call into view the unlawfulness of the practice by which our mariners are forced at the will of every cruising officer from their own vessels into foreign ones, nor paint the outrages inseparable from it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unlawfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlawfulness" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unlawfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laittomuus (illegality, wrongfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unrechtmäßigkeit (illegitimacy, illegitimateness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρανομία (illegality, illicitness, malfeasance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 違法 (illegal, illegality), 曲事 (calamity, crookedness, injustice, something disgusting, something not right, something out of the ordinary, something unhappy, something unpleasant, wickedness), 不法 (illegality, injustice, lawlessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くせ"と (calamity, crookedness, something disgusting, something not right, something out of the ordinary, something unhappy, something unpleasant), ふほう (illegality, injustice, lawlessness, news of a person's death), いほう (bulletin, collection of reports, foreign country, illegal, illegality, memory or autograph of deceased). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awfulnessunlay nelegiuire (crime), ilegalitate. (various references) противозаконность. (various references) tính chất không hợp pháp (illegitimateness), tính chất bất chính. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "unlawfulness": unlawfulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-n-n-s-s-u-u-w" | |
-2 letters: lawfulness. | |
-3 letters: annuluses, awfulness. | |
-4 letters: flannels, flawless, fullness, unfallen, unlawful. | |
-5 letters: annulus, awnless, flannel, fulness, funnels, lawless, lunulae, lunules, sensual, unseals, unsells, wanness. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-l-n-n-s-s-u-u-w" | |
+2 letters: unlawfulnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6C 61 77 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-.. .- .--. ..-. ..- .-.. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101100 01100001 01110111 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n l a w f u l n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006C 0061 0077 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558078678972877880718585 |
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