☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Scofflaw

A person who habitually violates laws or regulations, especially those that are difficult to enforce, such as parking ordinances, prohibition statutes, or tax obligations. Coined during Prohibition to describe those who flouted the liquor ban.

Etymology: English compound, coined by Delcevare King (1924) in a Boston Herald contest to describe a lawless drinker · Category: General Legal Terms · Source: Boston Herald (1924); Oxford English Dictionary
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