Word Meanings - KLEPTOMANIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.

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• IRRESPONSIBILITY
  Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• CLAIMABLE
  Capable of being claimed.
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• PROPENSITY
  The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency.
• LEGALISM
  Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
• CLAIMLESS
  Having no claim.
• LEGALIZATION
  The act of making legal.
• STEALER
  The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
• STEALTHINESS
  The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
• STEALING
  1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• CLAIMANT
  One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
• LEGAL
  Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets. Bouvier. Burrill. Legal cap. See under Cap. -- Legal tender. The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• RECLAIM
  To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.
• NONCLAIM
  A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• ILLEGALNESS
  Illegality, unlawfulness.
• MISCLAIM
  A mistaken claim.
• ILLEGALITY
  The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.