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单词 lawgiver
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Definition of lawgiver in English:

lawgiver

noun ˈlɔːɡɪvəˈlɔˌɡɪvər
  • A person who draws up and enacts laws.

    立法者

    the monarch was supreme executive, lawgiver, judge, and warrior
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As lawgiver, he reconciled dynastic and Islamic law, enforced justice, and organized provincial administration, land tenure, taxation, and educational/religious hierarchy.
    • It is no more valid to say ‘because law suggests a lawgiver, a divine lawgiver must exist’.
    • This chapter and verse makes clear that only God can be our lawgiver, judge and King.
    • But there is no hint that the other great lawgivers sought even a formal ratification for their codes.
    • Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people.
    • Whatever their practical usefulness (which is problematic), the kings who made them clearly wanted to seem sophisticated: lawgivers in the classical mould.
    • The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby.
    • In international law, violators do sometimes turn out to be lawgivers.
    • It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet.
    • The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
    • There were musicians in my family, warriors, poets, lawgivers.
    • Perhaps there cannot be laws without a lawgiver.
    • The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
    • So the perfect judge would have to be the perfect lawgiver, whose laws are not only infinitely complex but also ordered toward a perfectly just society.
    • Unlike human laws which imply the existence of a lawgiver, natural laws are simply sophisticated ways of saying ‘That's the way it goes.’
    • 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.
    • It basically says that the law is whatever the lawgiver says it is.
    • Though we might not like most human ‘rules and laws,’ we might like the idea of a divine lawgiver and laws even less.
    • How many lawgivers has the world seen from Solon to this day?
    • 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.

Definition of lawgiver in US English:

lawgiver

nounˈlɔˌɡɪvərˈlôˌɡivər
  • A person who draws up and enacts laws.

    立法者

    the monarch was supreme executive, lawgiver, judge, and warrior
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In international law, violators do sometimes turn out to be lawgivers.
    • It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet.
    • Though we might not like most human ‘rules and laws,’ we might like the idea of a divine lawgiver and laws even less.
    • This chapter and verse makes clear that only God can be our lawgiver, judge and King.
    • There were musicians in my family, warriors, poets, lawgivers.
    • As lawgiver, he reconciled dynastic and Islamic law, enforced justice, and organized provincial administration, land tenure, taxation, and educational/religious hierarchy.
    • The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby.
    • 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.
    • The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
    • It is no more valid to say ‘because law suggests a lawgiver, a divine lawgiver must exist’.
    • But there is no hint that the other great lawgivers sought even a formal ratification for their codes.
    • It basically says that the law is whatever the lawgiver says it is.
    • How many lawgivers has the world seen from Solon to this day?
    • 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.
    • So the perfect judge would have to be the perfect lawgiver, whose laws are not only infinitely complex but also ordered toward a perfectly just society.
    • Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people.
    • Whatever their practical usefulness (which is problematic), the kings who made them clearly wanted to seem sophisticated: lawgivers in the classical mould.
    • The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
    • Unlike human laws which imply the existence of a lawgiver, natural laws are simply sophisticated ways of saying ‘That's the way it goes.’
    • Perhaps there cannot be laws without a lawgiver.
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