Noun: outlaw
| Singular | outlaw |
| Plural | outlaws |
Sample Sentences
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“I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. […]" [1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:]
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The main character in the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.
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Without a pimp, she was an "outlaw," likely to be harassed, or threatened with assault or robbery on the street. [1977, Joseph Julian, Social Problems, page 463:]
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She was an outlaw. Chance is doing some double-checking to see if she had a pimp nobody knew about, but it doesn't look likely. [2010, Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die:]
Nouns inflected like outlaw
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utlaȝe, from Old English ūtlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- + law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”). See: Middle English Nouns '
outlawe', Old English Nouns '
ūtlaga', Old Norse Nouns '
útlagi', Icelandic Nouns '
útlagi'.