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Law-breaking   Listen
noun
law-breaking  n.  
1.
An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.
Synonyms: crime.





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"Law-breaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... community. It is of little use to appeal to the so-called conscience unless we can produce some credentials of the proper training and enlightenment of that rather vague and uncertain faculty, whose normal province is to condemn wrong acts, not to justify law-breaking. Most resisters talk the very language of Antigone, appealing to the will of Heaven; would that they could prove as satisfactorily as she did that the power behind them is that which ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb
... law," said the clock tinker, "an' small credit to thee. But the law o' thine own discovery,—the law that is for thyself an' no other,—hast thou ne'er thought of it? Ill luck is the penalty o' law-breaking. Therefore study the law that is for thyself. Already I have discovered one for thee, an' it is, 'I have not limberness enough in me bones, so I must put them in no unnecessary peril.' Listen, I'll read ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller


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