lawgiver

How to use lawgiver in a sentence

• The obedience thus inculcated was not merely made known by the glorious lawgiver, but acknowledged as obligatory by men.

  The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham

• No lawgiver had ever been able to devise a perfect and immortal form of government.

  The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay

• He further adds, "This lawgiver must be more than man, that he may teach us things man cannot know by his own nature."

  Gospel Philosophy | J. H. Ward

• In the first place, his signal success as a lawgiver was due entirely to the dazzling splendors of his victories.

  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane

• The lawgiver, or the political hero in the true sense of the word, stands at the zenith of the age.

  Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt