lawgiver
- n a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws
- William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region.
- But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver.
- Ironically enough, this mesmeric lawgiver who commands such loyalty is a lonely man without real friends and apparently without desire for any.