不ふ敬けい罪ざい

noun

lese majesty; lèse-majesté

A legal term for the crime of insulting or showing disrespect toward a monarch, head of state, or national symbols. Historically used in Japan under the former Penal Code (abolished in 1947).

• 不ふ敬けい罪ざいは、かつて日本にほんの刑けい法ほうに存そん在ざいした罪つみの一ひとつだ。

  Lese majesty was one of the crimes that once existed in Japan's Penal Code.

• タイでは今いまでも不ふ敬けい罪ざいが厳きびしく適てき用ようされることがある。

  In Thailand, lese majesty is still sometimes strictly enforced.