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21lawful — legal, lawful, legitimate, licit 1. All four words share the basic meaning ‘conforming to the law’. Something is legal when it is authorized by the law of the land, legitimate when it conforms to custom or common justice, and lawful (a more old… …
22lawful — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ consider sth, deem sth ADVERB ▪ perfectly (esp. BrE) ▪ …
23lawful — /ˈlɔfəl / (say lawfuhl) adjective 1. allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law. 2. legally qualified or entitled: lawful king. 3. recognised or sanctioned by law. 4. valid; legitimate: a lawful marriage. –lawfully, adverb –lawfulness, noun …
24lawful — / lɔ:f(ə)l/ adjective acting within the law ♦ lawful practice action which is permitted by the law ♦ lawful trade trade which is allowed by law …
25lawful — See legal. See legal, lawful …
26Lawful — Recorded as Lawless, Lawles, Laweles, and the opposite and much rarer Lawful and Lawfull, these very interesting surnames are of medieval English origin. The first is apparently derived from a nickname for an unbridled and licentious man, from… …
27lawful — adjective conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules. ↘dated (of a child) born within a lawful marriage. Derivatives lawfully adverb lawfulness noun …
28lawful — adjective the lawful seizure of weapons Syn: legitimate, legal, licit, just, permissible, permitted, allowable, allowed, rightful, sanctioned, authorized, warranted, within the law; informal legit Ant: illegal, criminal …
29lawful — According to law. In accord with the spirit of the law, not merely the forms of law. State ex rel. Van Nice v Whealey, 5 SD 427, 431, 59 NW 211. See legal, also words and phrases following beginning lawful and words and phrases beginning legal …
30lawful — Oh lawful case! an interjection. Derb …
