legality

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /liˈɡælɪti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lawfulness. countable,uncountable
    — Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
  2. A dice game; the same as chuck-a-luck. countable,uncountable
    — There was one game in particular called “legality,” in which the managers of the establishment played against all comers. It was a game in which six numbers were marked upon a board, the players staked upon a number, the keeper of the bank threw against the players, and according to whether they were successful or not in the number they backed, they won or lost.

词形变化

legalities plural

词汇关系

近义词
lawfulness legality legalness
反义词
illegality
上位词
legitimacy order
衍生词
legality panel medicolegality principle of legality pseudolegality
相关词
law rule of law

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.?
Proto-Italic *lēks
Latin lex
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin lēgālislbor.
English legal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English legality
From legal + -ity.
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