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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

  • great: Tho he was by then surely accepted as the great lawgiver of the Jews, his dramatic biography had not yet been written.
  • 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.
  • Jewish: Even in the bible, considering that Moses is the Jewish lawgiver, he is rarely mentioned in the Jewish scriptures outside of Exodus.