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What is the adjective for lawfulnesses?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs lawyer and lawe which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

lawless
  1. Not governed by any law.
  2. Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal.
  3. Not restrained by the law or by discipline; unruly, disorderly.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The lawless mob wreaked havoc on the streets, looting stores and setting buildings on fire, proving themselves to be utterly disorderly and beyond any semblance of control or discipline.”
      “The notorious gang turned the once peaceful village into a lawless place, engaging in illegal activities without fear of consequence.”
      “Other sources mention Vlad's determination to bring order in lawless times.”
lawgiving
  1. Enacting laws; legislative.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The attempted lawgiving of the wolf commander is undermined by the lawgiver's pleonectic sequestering of his own booty from the hunt.”
      “And which policymaking and lawgiving frameworks may properly be upheld in the name of shared, normative values that pay due regard to the fact of pluralism?”
      “Rousseau saw himself in that role and actually offered his assistance in revolutionary lawgiving to Poland and Corsica.”
lawyerly
  1. Characteristic of, or suitable to, a lawyer.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Putting witnesses under oath induces them to weigh every word with lawyerly care rather than freely volunteer information.”
      “The letters he sent to his captors, often in shaky, hard-to-read handwriting, reveal the lawyerly and uncompromising precision of his approach.”
      “His lawyerly grasp of a brief on every subject gives him the edge over questioners every time.”
lawyerlike
  1. Resembling a lawyer or some aspect of one.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The rotund and lawyerlike Taft did not enjoy a happy presidency.”
      “Mostly, Fehr sounded just as Vincent had described him, lawyerlike, in talking about options and consensus, but leaving out an attribute the players paid him for.”
      “He analyzed the marketing of the chocolate with lawyerlike logic and came to the conclusion there was little special about it.”
lawbreaking
lawful
  1. Conforming to, or recognised by law or rules.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “However, it would still be perfectly lawful for the British state to simply declare him immune from prosecution.”
      “The judge declared that the defendant's actions were lawful, as they conformed to the established laws and regulations.”
      “Removal of a child from a parent without lawful authority may amount to the criminal offence of child abduction.”
lawfull
  1. Archaic spelling of lawful.
lawlike
  1. Having characteristics of a law.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The lawlike order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us is accepted as an act of sheer faith.”
      “Nevertheless, our very procedure, in deriving therefrom a lawlike description of the infinite modes, presupposes the possibility of a deductive science.”
      “Debates in the philosophy of social science often pit lawlike against ideographic approaches to explanation, whilst dividing objective, value-free approaches from critical and engaged stances.”
lawyerless
  1. Without a lawyer.
lawyered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of lawyer
lawyering
  1. present participle of lawyer
lawed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of law
  2. simple past tense and past participle of lawe
lawing
  1. present participle of law
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