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Definition of Higher law
1. Noun. A principle that takes precedent over the laws of society.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Higher Law
Literary usage of Higher law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"higher law. A supposed moral rule, excusing the citizen from obeying the law of
the land. 1850 I see no way of avoiding [these consequences], ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Others—eg, Schleier- macher and Ritschl—mean by higher law, subjective religious
feeling. Thus, to them a miracle is not different from any other natural ..."
3. The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1901)
"XXVII THE VAGARIES OF THE higher law MR. DELAMERE went immediately to his grandson's
room, which he entered alone1, closing and locking the door behind him. ..."
4. History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue by Jacob R Shipherd, Ralph Plumb, Henry Everard Peck (1859)
"He Sam Johnson wrote that the higher law was the law of one's country. ...
What the gentlemen and Saints of Oberlin called higher law he called Devil's Law. ..."
5. The Constitutional History of the United States, 1765/1895 by Francis Newton Thorpe (1901)
"... his appeal to the higher law, that corrective in nature, which not understood
is supposed to rule the affairs of this world ultimately for justice. ..."
6. Religion and Science: A Series of Sunday Lectures on the Relation of Natural by Joseph LeConte (1877)
"But, that what was intended for the higher law, and is capable of attaining the
more glorious spiritual beauty—that this should be dragged down and given up ..."
7. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"Some apologists have endeavoured to pass off miracles as effects of a higher law.
But Mill exposes the utter meaninglessness of this celebrated phrase. ..."
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