pseudo-legality

English

Noun

pseudo-legality (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of pseudolegality
   • 2003, Geoffrey Ellis, The Napoleonic Empire:

     Isser Woloch sees this as one questionable episode in the public life of modern France, 'a nation where coups clothed in pseudo-legality have repeatedly changed the rules of the game'.

   • 2012, Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust:

     Many executions by the military rebels were given a veneer of pseudo-legality by trials, although they were effectively little different from extra-judicial murder.

   • 2014, John W. F. Dulles, Unrest in Brazil: Political-Military Crises 1955-1964:

     Will it not also be obvious 'pseudo-legality' to have that which seeks to legitimize itself in order to defend intransigently a mechanism prepared to assure voting by the illiterates, prohibited by law?