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Illegality

Illegality \Il`le*gal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Illegalities. [Cf. F. ill['e]galit['e].] The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
illegality

1630s, from illegal + -ity; or else from French illegalité (14c.).

Wiktionary
illegality

n. 1 (context legal English) the state of being illegal 2 (context legal English) (''uncountable''): a defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law

WordNet
illegality

n. unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute [ant: legality]

Usage examples of "illegality".

And they attribute its loss to the illegality of applying the Masoretic points to so sacred a Name, by which a knowledge of the proper vowels is forgotten.

Department, State police, Wasco County Sheriff and The Dalles Police Department wanted to search buildings for documents, which might have included an illuminating assortment of random illegalities, but the Rajneesh attorneys insisted on specific requests for documents which would then be voluntarily produced.

Wade was aware of the fact that his family was immersed in a world of cheese, cruddiness and illegalities from which they might never emerge.

Sanglier realized the moment he briefed the Amsterdam police he would be condoning the very computer illegality he intended to condemn the woman for condoning in the first place.

Sanglier understood, too, after a slightly longer explanation, and agreed because he had no alternative, even though it would be condoning the computer illegality for which he'd sidetracked Claudine and the German.

But the fact of illegality has bred a cultishness, a pot underground whose partisans are forced to skulk around like spies, convening in dark rooms to pass their criminal pleasure from hand to nervous hand.

The Party, the Federal Security Bureau, and the European Peoples' Army were maneuvering against each other in an unprecedentedly overt manner: military budgets queried, more MEPs and Party officials under suspicion or arrest, inquiries launched into FSB illegalities, rapid promotions and demotions and cashierings, military exercises proceeding without authorization, unscheduled call-ups of reservists (which, I guessed, added draft-evasion to my crimes).

Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Baylor Brown was going to supply answers or all the expos6s of, Washington's clandestine activities would be seen as mere footnotes compared with what he would reveal: the incompetences, the illegalities, the miscalculations and errors costing the lives of thousands the world over every year.

Only the manager's wife was available, and Exton explained simply that the two men were suspected of currency illegalities and that he would cause as little disturbance as possible and he was sorry but it couldn't be postponed and he'd be grateful if the matter could be concluded immediately.

Kettridge has been raving about illegalities since Mountbatten stormed out of the ballroom last night.

Of course, you’ll want to omit mention of my more flagrant illegalities, given Mr.

Holding the document up to the light since it was difficult to read, Kim learned that it was a ruling by Magistrate Corwin denying a petition by Thomas Putnam, who wanted the Northfields purchase contract declared null and void because of the illegality of Elizabeths signature.

He could not be tied in with any illegality, so he had invented the fictitious young American named George, and had described him in a way that would fit half the young Americans in Mexico on summer vacation.