mores
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) .
Noun
(<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary
en-plural noun”>en-plural noun)
A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, page 99:
- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past?—?a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores , political and religious restrictions.
* 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 165:
- It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos” with its plural ”mores”, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the ”mores ?—?the rules of behaviour?—?of a society.
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
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law
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).
Noun
(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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A particular such rule.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify “what happens,” without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English “common law” petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to “equity”.
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
Derived terms
* above the law
* against the law
* a law unto oneself
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* Avogadro’s law
* Beer-Lambert law
* Boyle’s law
* bylaw
* canon law
* Charles’ law
* civil law
* common law
* contract law
* corn laws
* Coulomb’s law
* criminal law
* de Morgan’s laws
* employment law
* family law
* Faraday’s laws
* federal law
* feudal law
* Fourier’s law
* Gauss’s law
* Graham’s law
* Gresham’s law
* Henry’s law
* Hooke’s law
* Hubble’s law
* international law
* into law
* Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
* Kerchoff’s laws
* law and order
* lawful
* lawgiver
* lawlike
* law lord
* lawmaker, law-maker
* law of cosines
* law of large numbers
* law of sines
* law of small numbers
* law of tangents
* law of the land
* law of the tongue
* lay down the law
* long arm of the law
* lynch law
* martial law
* Moore’s law
* Murphy’s law
* natural law
* Newton’s law of cooling
* Newton’s law of gravitation
* Newton’s laws of motion
* Ohm’s law
* physical law
* power law
* Poiseuille’s law
* possession is nine points of the law
* property law
* Roman law
* statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US)
* state law
* statute law (Commonwealth English)
* Stefan-Boltzmann law
* Stokes’ law
* sus law
* take the law into one’s own hands
* the law is an ass
* three laws of robotics
* unwritten law
* Zipf’s law
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Also spelled low.
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
- You might climb the Law […] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
Compare (la).
Interjection
(en interjection)
(dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
References
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