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† self-law Obs.
[self- 5 e.]
A law of one's own making or to suit oneself.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 365 It is Selfe-Law, or if you will, love God, so as not to lose by him, and thy Neighbour for thy selfe. a1680Charnock Mercy for Chief of Sinners (1846) 16 [They] are so much a law to themselves, that it is difficult to persuade them..to part with this self-law in matter of justification.
So † self-lawed a., that is a law to himself.
1635Quarles Embl. iii. iii. 134 It raignes in ev'ry part, But playes the selfe-law'd Tyrant in my heart. |