illegalize

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Etymology

illegal + -ize or il- + legalize

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈliːɡəlʌɪz/

Verb

illegalize (third-person singular simple present illegalizes, present participle illegalizing, simple past and past participle illegalized)

  1. To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize. [from 19th c.]
    • 2000, Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson, Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law, page 111:
      Only as recently as 1991 was the rape by a husband of his wife illegalised.
    • 2002, David Evans, A History of Nature Conservation in Britain, page 47:
      A 1908 Act illegalised the teagle, a particularly nasty snare of baited hooks joined by strings which was put out to attract birds during hard weather.
    • 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 41:
      Although slavery had been illegalized by 1870, fundamental prejudice could not be legislated away.

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