outlawdom

English

Etymology

From outlaw +‎ -dom.

Noun

outlawdom (uncountable)

  1. The state, condition, or jurisdiction of outlaws; lawlessness; outlaws collectively.
    • 1899, Guy Boothby, A Sailor's Bride, page 165:
      The suddenness of the whole proceeding, the change from the monotonous regularity of ship life to that of wild outlawdom, had taken him so much by surprise that it deprived him of speech.
    • 2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty:
      True History grants the readers glimpses into the psyche of a nineteenth-century Irishman, whose “brave parents was ripped from Ireland like teeth from the mouth of their own history," and who himself was driven to outlawdom by the injustices of the British colonial administration.
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