Law Unto Oneself Definition
noun
One who is free from the constraints of law or rule .
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One who flouts the law or conventional wisdom ; one who ignores rules or logic to behave according to his or her own standards.
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Origin of Law Unto Oneself
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Probably from Romans 2:14 in the King James Version of the Bible (see the quotation under sense 3 below), though the term has come to have the opposite meaning, as senses 1 and 2 indicate. Sense 3 is now largely limited to references to the Bible verse.
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