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above the law en · ADP

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.
   • The emperor is above the law.
   • 'The law,' she laughed with scorn - 'the law! Canst thou not understand, oh Holly, that I am above the law, and so shall my Kallikrates be also? All human law will be to us as the north wind to a mountain.' 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • If we hesitate to call those actions and their perpetrator criminal, then we are saying he is above the law and giving license to future presidents to do whatever they want. 2022 August 26, “Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • You may think you're above the law, but you're not.

Coordinates

below the law

Relateds

law unto oneself

Translations (12)

nl boven de wet (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · ru превы́ше зако́на (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · fr au-dessus des lois (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · el υπεράνω του νόμου (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · pl ponad prawem (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · fi lain yläpuolella (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · ja 法の埒外 (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · it al di sopra della legge (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · pt acima da lei (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · cmn 凌駕於法律之上 /凌驾于法律之上 (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · es por encima de la ley (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else) · de über dem Gesetz (exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else)