Brewer's: Malum Prohibitum

(Latin). What is wrong merely because it is forbidden, as eating a particular fruit was wrong in Adam and Eve, because they were commanded not to do so. Doing secular work on the Sabbath.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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