lawgiver

Example Sentences

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Land in and around Cal State Long Beach is the sacred ancestral home of the Tongvas’ divine founder and lawgiver, Chingishish, and ancient human remains have been discovered there over the years, occasioning ceremonial reburials.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Here is another problem: One of the roles of a president or other leader is to function as a lawgiver figure, a type of parental figure for a society.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2018

He’s no King Solomon, but Kennedy, the perpetual swing vote, may be the dominant lawgiver of his day.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2016

Through Eisler, Lloyd met Schoenberg, the awe-inspiring lawgiver of twentieth-century music.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2015

He was the lawgiver in our family and I never laughed in his presence.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright