What does the word illicit mean?
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ILLICITLY.
Part of speech: adverb
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Usage examples for illicit
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Pictures of Ruth in the man's arms, of her surrender, of the intimacies of their illicit affair forced themselves upon him. – Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
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This evidence is complete so far as to show that it was not Trajan's answer to Pliny which made the Christian religion illicit, but that it was already of itself a capital crime. – Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. Allies
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So, after many days' intense toil- toil which even troubled the night watches, for have I not lain awake with thoughts automatically concentrated on a seemingly impossible problem, plotting by what illicit and awful torture it might be possible for the tough and stubborn parts to be brought into juxtaposition- there is a chair- a solid, sitable chair, which neither squeaks, nor shuffles, nor shivers. – My Tropic Isle by E J Banfield