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ultralegal en · ADJ

Etymology

From ultra- + legal. Piecewise doublet of ultraloyal.

Meanings

1. Going beyond what is authorized or set out by law.
   • I want to say at this time I shall have something to say in regard to the enlarged powers of the comptroller, which I think are ultralegal, in which he has taken over the functions of the Government entirely without regard to any authorization of law. 1930, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Consolidation of Veterans' Activities: Hearings..., page 84:
   • Public opinion had softened Hull's earlier ultralegal position that Americans who enlisted in the armies of foreign countries had lost their citizenship, […] 2007, Cecil D. Eby, Comrades and Commissars, page 317:

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