law of the tongue

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English

Proper noun

law of the tongue

  1. Appropriate control of one's words.
    • 1922, Louis Albert Banks, The new ten commandments, and other sermons, page 16:
      How close the Psalmist came to the proper law of the tongue when he exclaimed: "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord"
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