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lawfulness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English laufulnes, lahfulnesse, equivalent to lawful + -ness.

  1. inherited from laufulnes

Definitions

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

    • His extreme lawfulness made him righteous, but did it make him merciful?

  2. Property of operating in a manner organized by certain laws, such as laws of nature.

    • The process of psychotherapy […] is a unique and dynamic experience, different for each individual, yet exhibiting a lawfulness and order which is astonishing in its generality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lawfulness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lawfulness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at lawfulness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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