单词 | sunday rule |
释义 | > as lemmasSunday rule d. With the sense ‘of or relating to the prohibition or regulation of certain activities on Sundays’, as Sunday law, Sunday rule, etc. Now chiefly historical. See also Sunday observance n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1787 J. Adams Def. Constit. Govt. U.S.A. 123 The whole American nation might unanimously consent to a Sunday law, and a warden act, which should deprive them of the use of their limbs one day in seven. 1833 New Monthly Mag. (U.S. ed.) 1 438/1 Sunday legislation.—All that the legislature has to do in this matter is to constitute Sunday an illegal day of business. 1843 N.-Y. Observer 7 Jan. 1/1 One of the higher officers of the department remarked aloud to Gov. Wickliffe.., that he supposed his Sunday rule was intended to apply to clerks only. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Oct. 2/2 In 1885 Austria-Hungary in response to the bitter cry of Sabbathless toilers enacted a stringent Sunday law. 1962 Times 27 Feb. 12/6 We were very strictly brought up and Sunday rules had only slightly been relaxed from the very strict principles laid down by my grandmother, who would not even allow the horses to be worked on Sunday. 1990 New Jersey Oct. 85/1 The strictness of its Sunday ‘blue laws’, which prohibited driving through the town, playing sports, or hanging laundry on the Sabbath. 2006 Jrnl. Church & State 41 34 The battles broke out thereafter over dueling, freemasonry, lotteries, drunkenness, Sunday laws,..blasphemy prosecutions, enforcement of Christian morals, and more. < as lemmas |
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