rule of law

1. 1.

   a state of order in which events conform to the law

   Broaderorder

   law

Questions about rule of law

What does rule of law mean?

rule of law means "a state of order in which events conform to the law".

Is rule of law a common word?

rule of law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.