Unlawlike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not according to law; illegal. obsolete

    "It being therefore most unlike a law , to ordain a remedy so slender and unlawlike , to be the utmost means of all public safety or prevention , as advice is , which may at any time be rejected by the sole judgment of one man"

Synonyms

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unlawful

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"It being therefore most unlike a law , to ordain a remedy so slender and unlawlike , to be the utmost means of all public safety or prevention , as advice is , which may at any time be rejected by the sole judgment of one man"

Etymology

From un- + lawlike.

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