illicitness


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Synonyms for illicitness

the state or quality of being illegal

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Antonyms for illicitness

the quality of not conforming strictly to law

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According to a document authored by the group (23), Dignitas Personae makes it clear that the fate of frozen embryos is beyond repair, because in practice the adoption has objective elements of moral illicitness. The document does not refer to the intention, which in itself is praiseworthy, nor to the object (prenatal adoption in itself), which provides a chance of life for some frozen human beings, otherwise condemned to destruction; the authors consider that the moral illicitness is due to the circumstances, which for them would have insurmountable negativity (24).
The show strenuously insists that participation in "the lifestyle,'' as it's enigmatically called, is predicated on following sets of rules."Neighbors With Benefits'' is premised on the presumed illicitness of swinging but mostly dwells on the negotiations that all of this freedom requires.
Indeed, beyond the undeniable complexity of social phenomena that makes teasing out causality and meaning difficult in general, research on issues characterized by stigma and/or illicitness faces further challenges to establishing the validity of inferences made from data (Lee and Rezentti, 1990).
CL7 Second, the illicitness of China's NRM-like groups is a highly contested issue.
Due to the illicitness of narcotics trafficking worldwide, those who decide to engage in drug smuggling in international waters must be prepared to face punishment under U.S.
Produced in hidden glens, unlicensed poitin acquired a romantic aura of illicitness. Three centuries later, it was legalized and a small number of poitins is now produced lawfully.
Third, they contended that the bizarre features of dreams are not due to any intentional obfuscation of some harbored illicitness; instead, "the forebrain may be making the best of a bad job in producing even partially coherent dream imagery from the relatively noisy signals sent up to it from the brain stem."
In it, the putatively white speaker, who otherwise exalts Southernness in the poem, uses the term "freebooter," a term connoting rapaciousness and illicitness, to describe the only other presumably white figure in the poem.
The final song, Sonnet LXXXIX, "When I die, I want your hands on my eyes" is the culmination of the cycle, and it begins with an introduction that employs the notes of the "illicit love motive" reordered into a more conjunct and lyric line that conveys a sense not of illicitness, but intimacy.
(8) Itty Abraham and Willem van Schendel, "Introduction: The Making of Illicitness," in Illicit Flows and Criminal Things, ed.
* John Allen lists four doctrines "connected by logical necessity" to "revealed truths of the faith." Three of them have to do with gender and sexual matters; the fourth is the illicitness of euthanasia.