| 单词 | primal law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprimal law primal law n. Cultural Anthropology and Psychology a law or primary social principle which is held (by some theorists) to originate at or before the time of the earliest human society; esp. the regulation of marriage and prohibition of incest by the authority of a dominant male. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > psychology of races or peoples > [noun] > original social law primal lawa1899 a1899 J. J. Atkinson Primal Law (1903) i. 210 The following thesis, however, on the genesis of primal law in human marriage, treats of a conjectural series of events in the ascent of man. 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 840 Primal Law is the male fiat which ordained the terms of this accommodation of interests, expressed in prohibitions from which are derived the rule of exogamy. 2003 Queen's Q. (Nexis) Sept. 354 You will find it was licentiousness, or the desecration of the primal law of marriage, which was the canker-worm at the root of the sacred tree of liberty. < as lemmas |
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