Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not belonging to or connected with a society: specifically applied to a workman who is not a member of a trades-society or trades-union, or to an establishment in which such men are employed: as, a non-society man; a non-society workshop.

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Examples

  • As soon as gangsta rap came out every brotha bailed on America and became some kind of outlying "non-society" where the Civil Rights Acts, Title 7 and every other actual law to give us options to racism are ignored for counter-productivity and cultural ruin.

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine Steven Barnes 2009

  • He discovers that a lawlessly anarchic as opposed to a libertarian, liberal, or anarchist society non-society is completely hellish.

    Hour of the Gun 2005

  • Times, too, were going to be specially bad for the non-society men.

    Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885

  • The student of human nature could not say as to this, and as to Miss Vance he judged it safest to treat of the non-society side of her character, her activity in charity, her special devotion to the work among the poor on the East Side, which she personally engaged in.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • The student of human nature could not say as to this, and as to Miss Vance he judged it safest to treat of the non-society side of her character, her activity in charity, her special devotion to the work among the poor on the East

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • The student of human nature could not say as to this, and as to Miss Vance he judged it safest to treat of the non-society side of her character, her activity in charity, her special devotion to the work among the poor on the East

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • What propels the plot forward, however, is the central conceit that it’s not the big macho types who survive in this overrun non-society.

    “Zombieland” achieves a tricky balance » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • I'm a non-society artist and a lousy one, but it gives me a reason to have a studio and be able to stay in town nights. "

    Knocked for a Loop Rice, Craig, 1908-1957 1957

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