lawful
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- lawfull (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law + -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lawful (comparative more lawful, superlative most lawful)
- (law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
- Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
- 1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress[1], London: Thomas Cadell, page 121:
- Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
- 2014, George Ortega, Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial:
- […] so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of lawful causes stemming from prior events […]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
conforming to or recognised by law or rules
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operating according to some law or fundamental principle
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Noun[edit]
lawful (plural lawfuls)
- (role-playing games) A character having a lawful alignment.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lawful
- Alternative form of laweful
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