LAWGIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lawgiver mean? 

• LAWGIVER (noun)
  The noun LAWGIVER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LAWGIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAWGIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lawgiver; lawmaker

Hypernyms ("lawgiver" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lawgiver"):

legislator (someone who makes or enacts laws)

promulgator ((law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution))

Instance hyponyms:

Draco (Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC))

 Context examples 

I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms: my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)