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# lawgiver

«lawgiver» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who makes the laws for a people or country, such…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lawgivers)

### meaning for a pupil

A lawgiver is a person who makes the laws for a people or country, such as a wise leader long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawgiver/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a lawgiver is a wise figure who sets down the rules of a land; in a picture of the past, the lawgiver stands for the old rules

### examples

- The lawgiver wrote rules for the whole city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawgiver/#x1)
- Moses is often called a great lawgiver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawgiver/#x2)
- The old king was a fair lawgiver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawgiver/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our Lawgiver, the LORD is our King; He will save us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.705/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lawgiver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawgiver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.