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by natural law

ADJECTIVE

dogmatic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assertive categorical pragmatic reasoned

WEAK

a priori as a matter of course authoritarian authoritative axiomatic by fiat by nature canonical deducible deductive derivable doctrinaire doctrinal eternal excathedra formal imperative inevitable on faith oracular orthodox peremptory positive prophetic systematic theoretical unchangeable unerring unqualified

Antonyms

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ambiguous amenable doubtful doubting dubious equivocal flexible fluctuating indecisive manageable not positive obedient questioning skeptical submissive uncertain vacillating

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But it does seem that rights, relationships, values and even notions of what is meant by natural law have all been redefined by mankind for a good long while.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2011

Practically all Protestant bodies today repudiate the position that contraception is forbidden by natural law.

From Time Magazine Archive

What he means by natural law and what uses he would put it to as a life-tenured Supreme Court Justice are not clear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only 41 years old in 1900, proposed a scientific basis for the notion that progress was gradual but inevitable, ordained by natural law.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this originated in the law of nations; for by natural law all men were born free—slavery, and by consequence manumission, being unknown.

From The Institutes of Justinian by Moyle, John Baron

by natural law

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