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Exile vs Outlawry - What's the difference?

exile | outlawry | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between exile and outlawry

is that exile is the state of being banished from one's home or country while outlawry is a declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.

As a verb exile

is to send into exile.

exile

English

Noun

(wikipedia exile) (en noun)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
    • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

    Anagrams

    * ----

    outlawry

    English

    Noun

    (outlawries)
  • (legal, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
  • The action characteristic of an outlaw; lawlessness.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 134:
  • *:Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry .