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lawful

adj
/ˈlɔːfl̩/UK/ˈlɔfl̩/US/ˈloːfl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law + -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.

  1. inherited from laweful

Definitions

  1. Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.

    • Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.
    • [Pete] Hegseth demanded full and unrestricted access to all Anthropic’s AI models for every lawful purpose.

  2. Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.

    • Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
    • […] so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of lawful causes stemming from prior events […]

  3. Of a character

    Of a character: having an alignment which makes them tend to follow the laws and conventions of society.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A character having a lawful alignment.

The neighborhood

Derived

awful but lawful, lawful but awful, lawful day, lawful evil, lawful good, lawful interception, lawfully, lawful money, lawfulness, lawful neutral, unlawfulness

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA