Definition of "nomos" []

• The body of law, especially that governing human behaviour. (noun)

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• "The nomos is horribly corroded and encrusted with all sorts of gunk."
• "His controversy with the Jews, the impossibility of understanding anything but the Jewish law under the word nomos, 'prevented St Paul from using the phrase, the inner law of duty."
• "In their classic efforts to answer this question, 5th-century Greek philosophers follow Homer in pondering how culture and nature (in Greek, nomos and phusis) relate to each other as they converge in human identity."