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▪ I. ˈlaw-giving, vbl. n.
Also 5 lawes-yovyng.
[f. law n.1 + giving vbl. n.]
The action or process of giving laws; legislation.
1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 73 They bene christen men, and lyvyng under your obeissaunce, lawes-yovyng, and yelding to youre lawes. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 178 This is the very end of Lawgiving, to abolish evil customs by wholsom Laws. 1876Oxford Bible-Helps, Mountains, Mount Horeb was the scene of the burning-bush and of the law-giving.
▪ II. ˈlaw-giving, ppl. a.
[f. law n.1 + giving ppl. a.]
That gives or makes laws. Also occas. that ‘gives the law’ to or determines.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 22 In Turky, besides their lawe-giuing Diuines, they haue no other Writers but Poets. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 196 As if the will of God were becom sinfull, or sin stronger then his direct and Law-giving will. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 310 Men would still worship the creature, under the form of abstractions and laws, instead of the living, lawgiving Creator. 1865Grote Plato I. i. 11 The nature of number was imperative and lawgiving. |
