English Dictionary

law unto oneself

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɔː ˈʌntʊ ˌwʌnˈsɛlf/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古風

One who is free from the constraints of law or rules. / One who flouts the law or conventional wisdom; one who ignores rules or logic to behave according to his or her own standards.

日本語の意味

自分のルールに従い、一般の規則や道徳を無視する人物 / 他人の法や慣習に縛られず、自分の信念で行動する人 / 規則や常識を踏みにじり、自分独自の基準で振る舞う人

In the small frontier town, the sheriff became a law unto oneself, enforcing rules based on personal whims.

その小さな辺境の町で、保安官は法の支配を受けない存在となり、個人的な気まぐれに従って規則を施行していた。

意味（1）

One who is free from the constraints of law or rules.

If you take away the Law, all things will fall into a Confuſion, every Man will become a law unto himſelf; which, in the depraved Condition of Human Nature, muſt needs produce many great Enormities.

意味（2）

One who flouts the law or conventional wisdom; one who ignores rules or logic to behave according to his or her own standards.

[T]he law was made to oppress the colored race, so I snapped my finger at the law, an' resolved to come up with it every time I got a chance. I would be a higher law unto myself; for if a white man, when he was wronged, was justified in rightin' himself, even to the takin' of life, I, bein' no whit inferior to my white compeer, would take the law into my own hands as he had into hisn.

意味（3）

(dated) One who is lawful in the absence of an enforced law; one who behaves with integrity.

For when the Gentiles which haue not the Law, doe by nature the things contained in the Law: theſe hauing not the Law, are a Law vnto themſelues.

laws unto themselves （ plural ）