Usage examples (34)

• It is common to think that the biblical lawgiver only constructs laws as a direct response to social and economic forces in his time.
• The lawgiver is to be a primary source of instruction about what is fine, just and good.
• It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is...
• Of these improvements the lawgiver was the cause; for the workmen having no more employment in matters of mere curiosity, showed the excellence of their art in necessary...