Definition of "lawgiver" []

• One who gives a code of laws to a people. (noun)
• See lawmaker. (noun)

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• "June 15th, 2009 at 4: 49 pm dp: I'm surprised that you don't recognize how the contigency on the existence of a universal lawgiver is completely invalidated when we recognize that the claimed, unquestionable universality simply isn't universal."
• "I'm surprised that you don't recognize how the contigency on the existence of a universal lawgiver is completely invalidated when we recognize that the claimed, unquestionable universality simply isn't universal."
• "God, the great lawgiver, is holy, just, and good, therefore his law must needs be so."