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Definition of Blue law
1. Noun. A statute regulating work on Sundays.
Definition of Blue law
1. Noun. (legal) A law that is intended to enforce moral standards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Law
Literary usage of Blue law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"One needs not be a Puritan or a blue-law maker to assert with all emphasis that
where honesty ceases to be fundamental there civilization lapses and the ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1878)
"THE blue law FORGERIES OF REV. SAMUEL PETERS. The Tni*-B!ue Laws of Connecticut
and New Haven, and the Fake Blue-Laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Connecticut: Quaker Laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts: Blue Laies of New York,
Maryland, i'imini-i, and South Carolina, Hartford, 1838; blue law» of ..."
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