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take the law into one's hands

law
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [law]
    • /teɪk stressed ði lɔ ˈɪn tu wʌnz hænd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [law]
    • /teɪk stressed ði lɔ ˈɪn tu wʌnz hænd/

Definitions of take the law into one's hands words

  • noun take the law into one's hands the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. 1
  • noun take the law into one's hands any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution. Compare bylaw, statute law. 1
  • noun take the law into one's hands the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and order. 1
  • noun take the law into one's hands a system or collection of such rules. 1
  • noun take the law into one's hands the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to study law. 1
  • noun take the law into one's hands the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law. 1
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Origin of take the law into one's hands

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English law(e), lagh(e), Old English lagu < Old Norse *lagu, early plural of lag layer, stratum, a laying in order, fixed tune, (in collective sense) law; akin to lay1, lie2

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Parts of speech for Take the law into one's hands

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take the law into one's hands popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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