Outlaw 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28
/ˈaʊt.lɔː/ (noun & verb)
Noun: a criminal person escaping from legal punishment, lawbreaker, fugitive, runaway, brigand, bandit, desperado
Verb: to make something illegal, ban something, forbid, veto, prohibit, proscribe, disallow, suppress, censure
In historical legal systems, an outlaw is one declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
Noun: outlawry
Antonym: allow
