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NOUN
  1. a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws

How To Use lawgiver In A Sentence

  • For surely to eat and drink one's fill from day to day and give oneself no grief at all, this is the king of gods for your wise man, but lawgivers go hang, chequering, as they do, the life of man! The Cyclops
  • It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
  • The Sunday school version of the relationship between Moses, the lawgiver, and Aron, the communicator, is one of fortuitous complementarity, a Hebrew Bobby and Jack Kennedy. Archive 2006-10-01
  • Allegorical portrait by Levitsky of the empress as Lawgiver in the temple of Justice.
  • Connecticut is here, and she comes, I doubt not, in the spirit of ROGER SHERMAN, whose name with our very children has become a household word, and who was in life the embodiment of that sound practical sense which befits the great lawgiver and constructer of governments. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
  • Perhaps there cannot be laws without a lawgiver.
  • If a custom is outgrown, or discovered to be wrong, then some procedure must be available for lawgivers to identify a new way for society to function.
  • So, it seems these lawgivers are indeed above the laws that are so vigorously enforced on unpopular public figures who are supporters of the wrong political party.
  • Quite apart from that, which represents the momentary state of science that may change tomorrow, the whole idea that natural laws imply a lawgiver is due to a confusion between natural and human laws.
  • There were musicians in my family, warriors, poets, lawgivers.
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