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Definition of Lawgiving
1. a. Enacting laws; legislative.
Definition of Lawgiving
1. Adjective. Enacting laws; legislative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lawgiving
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawgiving
Literary usage of Lawgiving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Comte to Benjamin Kidd: The Appeal to Biology Or Evolution for Human by Robert Mackintosh (1899)
"... CHAPTER VI COMTE'S lawgiving Its principles —The separation of the temporal
and spiritual powers — Political character of Comte's sociology — Details ..."
2. The Heimskringla: Or, The Sagas of the Norse Kings from the Icelandic of by Snorri Sturluson, Samuel Laing, Rasmus Björn Anderson (1889)
"Of Odin's lawgiving. Odin established the same law in his land that had been in
force among the Asas. Thus he established by law that all dead men should be ..."
3. A History of the Jewish Nation: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Edward Henry Palmer (1883)
"... the lawgiving—The forty years* wanderings—Topogra]4iy and vestiges of the
wanderings—Kadesh—Condition of the Israelites in the wilderness—Death of ..."
4. Readings in Civil Government by Percy Lewis Kaye (1910)
"A legal limit must mean a limit imposed by a lawgiving authority. Now the lawgiving
authority is the sovereign power of the state, and any limits it might ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1872)
"Where the lawgiving ceases sin begins.' Of such self-lawgiving our humble friend
knows nothing. It is to be feared that the task of imagining what human ..."
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