-rē, -ri noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English outlagerie, outlagarie, outlawerie, from Anglo-French utlagerie & Medieval Latin utlagaria, from Middle English outlage outlaw + Old French -erie -ery & Latin -aria -ary respectively
1.
a. : the act of outlawing : the act or process of putting a person outside the protection of the law
by proscription and bills of outlawry — Shakespeare
— compare fugitation
b. : banishment , exile
on his outlawry was allowed five days to leave the country — E.A.Freeman
c. : the act or process of making something illegal
the outlawry of war
the outlawry of atomic weapons
2. : the state of living outside the law : freedom from legal or conventional restraint
whose gay impudence of outlawry had in its time set the underworlds of five continents buzzing — Leslie Charteris
Quincy … was liberty, outlawry , the endless delight of impressions given by nature for nothing — Henry Adams
3. : the act of barring a debt, claim, or right (as by operation of a statute of limitations)