单词	lawgiver
释义	lawgiver noun law·​giv·​er ˈlȯ-ˌgi-vər  1 : one who gives a code of laws to a people 2 : legislator Synonyms lawmaker legislator solon See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences political activists strenuously lobbied the state's lawgivers to expand the scope of the civil rights legislation Recent Examples on the Web Yet the earliest legal collection in the Bible, in the book of Exodus, lacks the role of the king as a lawgiver for the first time in the history of the ancient Near East. Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022 Scholars have noted an innovation that occurred in the laws in the Bible: There is no king who acts as the lawgiver. Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022 In other words, a Spartan way of life that gradually took shape was retroactively attributed to a single lawgiver, whose name gave it an almost divine authority. Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021 In ancient Sparta, the lawgiver Lycurgus had contrived to make his constitution permanently unamendable. Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 7 May 2021 What makes Larsen’s novel so striking is its cold, utilitarian atmosphere of let the joke on the lawgiver be. Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020 They are supposed to be the messengers, not the lawgivers. Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020 El Pastor is the lawgiver (no drinking, no smoking, no fighting) and the genial benefactor who supplies everything from food to bus fare to toilet paper. Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2019 El Pastor is the lawgiver (no drinking, no smoking, no fighting) and the genial benefactor who supplies everything from food to bus fare to toilet paper. Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2019 See More Word History First Known Use 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 lawgiver noun as in legislator a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws political activists strenuously lobbied the state's lawgivers to expand the scope of the civil rights legislation Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance legislator senator solon lawmaker congressman assemblyman congresswoman assemblywoman
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