Relating to the making or enacting of laws; legislative.
law-giving bodies
law-giving powers
Example sentencesExamples
He negotiates a long, perilous journey to a new land where he finds himself worshipped as a demigod, plied with regalia and invested with law-giving powers by a local tribe.
God was portrayed as a law-giving and law-abiding being but natural causes were sought to explain the workings of the natural world.
Our law-giving institutions will continue to operate more or less in the dark.
This account is also interesting because it too contains the concept of a law-giving deity.
God the Father, often called Urizen - the Creator - in Blake's own mythology, represents the law-giving, restrictive and unforgiving enemy of humanity.