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The quality of conforming to law
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lawfulness
Word definitions for lawfulness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lawful \Law"ful\, a. Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent. Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands. Lawful age , the age when the law recognizes one's right of independent action; majority; -- ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Property of being lawful, of obeying the law.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of conforming to law [ant: unlawfulness ]
Usage examples of lawfulness.
Instead of giving me a direct answer, the old hypocrite began a long sermon on the lawfulness of the parental kiss.
Program planners have set a goal of collecting information, confirming identity, providing information about foreign nationals throughout the entire immigration system, and ultimately enabling each point in the system to assess the lawfulness of travel and any security risks.
And the same spirit extended to the realm of astronomy, where the regularities of celestial motions were no longer seen as a choreography of God, but as the working of a vast, endlessly repeating, cosmic machine obeying the mechanical lawfulness revealed by Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and their followers.