An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OUTLAWRY
lawlessness, outlawry
(noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
outlawry (countable and uncountable, plural outlawries)
(legal, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. [from 14th c.]
The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness. [from 19th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Out"law`ry, n.; pl. Outlawries (.
1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.
2. The state of being an outlaw.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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