Definition of Lawfulness

1. Noun. The quality of conforming to law.

Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Legality, Legitimacy, Licitness
Attributes: Lawful, Unlawful
Derivative terms: Lawful, Lawful, Lawful
Antonyms: Unlawfulness

Definition of Lawfulness

1. Noun. Property of being lawful, of obeying the law. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lawfulness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawfulness

lawcourt
lawcourts
lawe
lawed
lawer
lawers
lawes
lawest
lawfare
lawful
lawful interception
lawful interceptions
lawfull
lawfully
lawfully-begotten
lawfulness (current term)
lawfulnesses
lawgiver
lawgivers
lawgiving
lawgivings
lawin
lawine
lawines
lawing
lawings
lawins
lawk
lawks
lawks a-mercy

Literary usage of Lawfulness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Economists generally uphold the theoretical lawfulness of interest on loans. ... The Holy See admits practically the lawfulness of interest on loans, ..."

2. Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1880)
"Because the review prepares the reader for a more accurate judgment respecting its lawfulness. Because it reminds him what War is, and because, ..."

3. Old Church Life in Scotland: Lectures on Kirk-session and Presbytery Records by Andrew Edgar (1886)
"The main points of controversy in regard to Baptism—Mode of administering Baptism—lawfulness or unlawfulness of private Baptism—Infant Baptism— Sponsors at ..."

4. The Law of Strikes, Lockouts and Labor Organizations by Thomas Sydenham Cogley (1894)
"lawfulness of. 29. Unlawful Organizations. § 28. lawfulness of. The organizations here treated of are such as are created under statutes, and are either ..."

5. Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: Since the by Charles Butler (1822)
"Observations on the lawfulness of the Marriage of Henry the eighth with queen Katharine. THE circumstance of the lawfulness, according to the christian ..."

6. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1899)
"On the question of the lawfulness of slavery, that is of the right of one man to appropriate to himself the faculties of another, without his consent, ..."

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