Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Illegality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Illegality, unlawfulness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
illegal .
Etymologies
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illegal + -ness
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Examples
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S.B. 1070 also raises the issue of the overlap in the U.S. imagination and in policing practice between Latino identity, phenotypes, and "illegalness," even when unjustified by actual citizenship and immigration status.
Mark Schuller: Guest Blog: An Anthropological Look at Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law 2010
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Some results from Pew Research, just in time for the amnesty to the illegalness and their extended families:
Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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