Definition of "lawgiving" [law•giv•ing]

• Enacting laws; legislative. (adjective)

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• "Archaic Arabian shrines were usually served by seven high priestesses, recalling the lawgiving Seven Sages, who were women."
• "Yet they also have the same tradition of study and lawgiving."
• "From a historic act of lawgiving, the ratification, to which all others accede by remaining on the territory governed by it past the age of majority."