Synonyms of lawgiver

lawgiver

noun

ˈlȯ-ˌgi-vər 

as in legislator

a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws

political activists strenuously lobbied the state's lawgivers to expand the scope of the civil rights legislation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• legislator
• senator
• lawmaker
• solon
• congressman
• assemblyman
• congresswoman
• assemblywoman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lawgiver

Centuries earlier, the ancient lawgiver Solon had sought to curb pleonexia by legislating against luxury and economic inequality. — David Lay Williams, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

Time and again, in unilaterally decreeing sweeping legislative policies such as student-loan forgiveness, an eviction moratorium, and a national vaccine mandate, Biden has acted as if the president is a national lawgiver with general police powers. — The Editors, National Review, 25 Apr. 2023

Thus, the biblical lawgiver made sure that no Jew would ever get a perfect 10 in the test of the commandments. — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023

Yet the earliest legal collection in the Bible, in the book of Exodus, lacks the role of the king as a lawgiver for the first time in the history of the ancient Near East. — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022

In other words, a Spartan way of life that gradually took shape was retroactively attributed to a single lawgiver, whose name gave it an almost divine authority. — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021