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Unlawed vs Unclawed - What's the difference?

unlawed | unclawed |

As a verb unlawed

is past tense of unlaw.

As an adjective unclawed is

lacking claws.

unlawed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (unlaw)

    • unlaw

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a crime, an illegal action

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deprive of the authority or character of law.
  • To put beyond the protection of the law; to outlaw.
  • (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, legal) to fine

    • unclawed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking claws.
  • * 1920 , Journal of Genetics (volume 9, page 165)
    • Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed , indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.