lawgiver
lawgiver
Definition
law·giver (-giv′ər)
noun
a person who draws up, introduces, or enacts a code of laws for a nation or people; lawmaker
lawgiver
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- give: These ânatural lawsâ are given by a personal lawgiver and obeyed by personal agents.
Converse of object
- have: Therefore, the Law of Gravity has a lawgiver.
Adjective modifier
- moral: If you believe in moral law you must also believe in a moral lawgiver.
- Levitical: For the Levitical lawgiver the figure of Yahweh corresponds to the figure of the pharaoh.
- biblical: It is common to think that the biblical lawgiver only constructs laws as a direct response to social and economic forces in his time.
- wise: You might call me Merlin or Saturn, the wise old lawgiver.
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