unrule
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]unrule (countable and uncountable, plural unrules)
- (uncountable) Absence of rule; anarchy.
- (countable) An impetus for creativity or chaos; a stimulating factor for acting outside of rules.
- 1982, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, volume 24, pages 4008–4444:
- The ending is the character string to be added to the root and modifier as defined by the rules and unrules.
- 2020, Dinda L. Gorlée, Wittgenstein’s Secret Diaries: Semiotic Writing in Cryptography, page 152:
- Language does not express in itself a rule but is a heterogeneous game playing with rules and unrules.