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

In the Mongol model, universal empire was matched with the extreme personalization of political authority, with the Great Khan functioning as the primary lawgiver not accountable to anyone else. — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

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