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Definition of Lawgiver
1. Noun. A maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Leader
Specialized synonyms: Legislator, Promulgator
Specialized synonyms: Draco
Definition of Lawgiver
1. n. One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
Definition of Lawgiver
1. Noun. One who provides the laws to a society. ¹
2. Noun. Any lawmaker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lawgiver
1. one who institutes a legal system [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawgiver
Literary usage of Lawgiver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Light and truth: or, Bible thoughts and themes by Horatius Bonar (1870)
"There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.'—JAMES 1V. 12. IT is
of God as lawgiver that the apostle here writes. He is not only a lawgiver, ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"But throughout it is as the lawgiver, the restorer and maintainer of peace and
order, that the first Angevin King stands forth before our eyes. ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"In the making of such laws as he intended to give the country, Prince Louis was
Prince highly skilled, for he knew how to enfold the crea- lawgiver tion of ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1828)
"For God, being the supreme lawgiver, hath power over his own laws,—as, being a
creator, he hath over his own creation ; he that gave being, ..."
5. Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the by George Stanley Faber (1818)
"It only remains, therefore, to be shewn that Jesus Christ is this lawgiver. 2.
If the person, generally received as the Messiah, be not this lawgiver, ..."
6. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"The law of a perfect moral government must express the lawgiver's preference of
the action required to its opposite, all things considered. ..."
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