/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Malum in Se (Latin)
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What is of itself wrong, and would be so even if no law existed against its commission, as lying, murder, theft.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.