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lawgiver

/law-giv-er/US // ˈlɔˌgɪv ər //UK // (ˈlɔːˌɡɪvə) //

执法者,送法者,送礼者,赠与者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.

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Examples

  • The obedience thus inculcated was not merely made known by the glorious Lawgiver, but acknowledged as obligatory by men.

  • No lawgiver had ever been able to devise a perfect and immortal form of government.

  • He further adds, "This lawgiver must be more than man, that he may teach us things man cannot know by his own nature."

  • In the first place, his signal success as a lawgiver was due entirely to the dazzling splendors of his victories.

  • The lawgiver, or the political hero in the true sense of the word, stands at the zenith of the age.