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单词 lawgiver
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lawgivern.

Brit. /ˈlɔːˌɡɪvə/, U.S. /ˈlɔˌɡɪvər/, /ˈlɑˌɡɪvər/
Etymology: < law n.1 + giver n. Compare Icelandic lög-gjafari, Danish lovgiver.
One who gives, i.e. makes or promulgates, a law or code of laws; a legislator.
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legislatora1513
conditora1533
law-setter?1573
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nomothete1586
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Numa1614
lawyera1647
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law-framer1876
Solon1903
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxvi. 22 Lo! heȝe God in his strengthe, and noon to hym lic in lawe ȝiueres [L. legislatoribus].
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 74 Not only is holi writ despicid bi þat sciens, & blasfemid, but God Himsilf þat is þe law ȝeuar.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxiii. C The Lorde shalbe oure lawe geuer.
1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 In the second place are Legislatores, Lawgiuers.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lx. 7 Iudah is my Lawgiuer . View more context for this quotation
1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning in Wks. (1731) I. 292 They are content Pythagoras should pass for a Law-giver, but by no means for a Philosopher.
1786 A. Gib Καινα και Παλαια: Sacred Contempl. i. iii. 36 The Supreme Law~giver is entitled to the absolute subjection of his reasonable creature.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 135 Minos appears in the..character..of a wise and just lawgiver.
1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 1 We bow to no law-giver in the church but Christ.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) VI. Index 510/1 [Sir Geo. Calvert] a wise and benevolent law-giver.
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