Noun:

न्यायविस्र्द्धी, नियम-विस्र्द्धी, अवैधता, अराजकता,

lawlessness's Usage Examples:

The story of the Bahamas is a singular one, and bears principally upon the fortunes of New Providence, which, from the fact that it alone possesses a perfectly safe harbour for vessels drawing more than 9 ft., has always been the seat of: government when it was not the headquarters of lawlessness.

To make an end of this universal lawlessness Valdemar IV.

After a life of exceptional and continuous lawlessness he escaped from Scotland and in his absence was sentenced to death; having returned to his native country he was seized and was beheaded in Edinburgh.

(He now felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will to those who knew the indubitable truth.)

It enabled the king to curb the lawlessness of the Magyar nobility, and explains why none of the numerous rebellions against him ever succeeded.

Elaborate legal enactments codified in Babylonia by the 10th century B.C. find striking parallels in Hebrew, late Jewish (Talmudic), Syrian and Mahommedan law, or in the unwritten usages of all ages; for even where there were neither written laws nor duly instituted lawgivers, there was no lawlessness, since custom and belief were, and still are, almost inflexible.

The decline of the Ottoman power, which began towards the end of the 17th century, was marked by increasing anarchy and lawlessness in the outlying portions of the empire.

The young king passed his early years amid the terrible anarchy in his island kingdom, which Innocent was powerless to check; but his education was not neglected, and his character and habits were formed by contact with men of varied nationalities and interests, while the darker traits of his nature were developed in the atmosphere of lawlessness in which he lived.

Its descriptions of the worldliness and lawlessness which prevailed among the elders and pastors, i.e.

Even Norman lawlessness in some sort took a legal shape.

Synonyms:

illegality, outlawry,

Antonyms:

organic disorder, functional disorder, legality,