Act concerning the receiving of Engagers in the late unlawfull War against England, to publick Satisfaction, Together with the Declaration and Acknowledgement to be subscribed by them.
Bad, and altogether unlawfull when it is used on purpose, to cozen, deceive, or for vaine glory to esteemed above what is meet and honest.
Beware, my friends, to wish unlawfull gaine; It will beget strange actions full of feare, And overthrowe the actor unawares.
See here the end of lucre and desire Of riches, gotten by unlawfull meanes.
What good man had not rather want any thing he most desired, for the publick good, then obtain it by such unlawfull and irreligious means?
King James his statute against prophaning scripture and God's name in Playes--his Statutes make Players rogues and Playes unlawfull pastimes.
It was further provided that those who by witchcraft presumed to discover treasure or to find stolen property or to "provoke any person to unlawfull love" should suffer a year's imprisonment and four appearances in the pillory.
And on any other person that shall wittingly accompany such Servant in such unlawfull departure as aforesaid.
Sidenote: That none of his Ma^{ties} Subjects of these kingdomes be forced or Enticed away to the Plantations by anyunlawfull Practises, but that they may be duly accomodated.
But by what way say they, or thinke yee it possible, they can come to these unlawfull conventions?
In the complaint made by William Richardson against his M{r} John Sabyn being heard & proved at this Court by his owne confession that Sabyn did use unlawfull correction to his appˀntice.
Pyrates & unlawfull Traders, instead of doeing his duty in seizing them.
For they were but Ministers; and when two of them Prophecyed in the Camp, it was thought a new and unlawfull thing; and as it is in the 27.
When an unusuall number of men, assemble against a man whom they accuse; the Assembly is an Unlawfull tumult; because they may deliver their accusation to the Magistrate by a few, or by one man.
Or what is it, without Authority from the Civill Soveraign, to excommunicate any person, but to take from him his Lawfull Liberty, that is, to usurpe an unlawfull Power over their Brethren?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unlawfull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
