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- noun Plural form of
lawgiver .
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We are born with a divine element within us, and it is for the maturity of this personal gift that all great and good men, such as lawgivers, discoverers, philosophers, poets, artists and every truly noble friend of his race, have striven, in the education of children, by the various institutions designed to foster their individual taste.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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The entire culture is controlled by a group of 'lawgivers' known as "The Body" which is, in turn, controlled by the omniscient Landru.
Latest Articles 2010
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Le Conseil du Sang, the Council of Blood, nightkind lawgivers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Le Conseil du Sang, the Council of Blood, nightkind lawgivers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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And the men who had made themselves chiefs were there, the lawgivers whose blood I bore, and whose blood I had wedded in Unga.
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Le Conseil du Sang, the Council of Blood, nightkind lawgivers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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But the monks of the earliest days had not counted on the human ability to generate a new cultural inheritance in a couple of generations if an old one is utterly destroyed, to generate it by virtue of lawgivers and prophets, geniuses or maniacs; through a Moses, or through a Hitler, or an ignorant but tyrannical grandfather, a cultural inheritance may be acquired between dusk and dawn, and many have been so acquired.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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Le Conseil du Sang, the Council of Blood, nightkind lawgivers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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And the men who had made themselves chiefs were there, the lawgivers whose blood I bore, and whose blood I had wedded in Unga.
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The more complex and specific regulation gets, he said, the more lawgivers play into the hands of banks and their lawyers, who merely invent new products enabling them to get around the new regulations.
BOE's King 'Baffled' by Logic of EU Capital Directive Geoffrey T. Smith 2011
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