Definitions
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- adjective Not according to law; being or done in violation of law; unlawful.
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- adjective obsolete Not according to
law ;illegal .
Etymologies
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un- + lawlike
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Examples
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In particular, nothing in the argument says that generalizations with grue predicates are ill-formed, unlawlike, or in some other way a priori inferior to “all emeralds are green”.
Formal Learning Theory Schulte, Oliver 2008
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