| 单词 |
lawfulness |
| 释义 |
lawfulness|ˈlɔːfʊlnɪs|
[f. lawful + -ness.]
1. The quality of being lawful; legality; respect for law.
a1250Owl & Night. 1741 Nawt for þire tale, Ah do for mire laþfulnesse. 1530Palsgr. 237/2 Laufulnesse, licitité, loysibletė. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlviii. §7 The lawfulnesse of our prayer for deliuerance out of all [calamities]. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. xliii. 69 This great instance of Gods being angry, gives an evident demonstration of the lawfulnesse of anger. 1635–56Cowley Davideis iv. Notes. (1669) 149 That is no more a proof of the Right, than their Practice was of the Lawfulness of Idolatry. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 140 Let him, who has Power to command me, look to the Lawfulness of it. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 566 To question the lawfulness of assassination..was to question the authority of the most illustrious Jesuits. 1924B. Williams in History Jan. 273 The adventures of..the N.W. Mounted Police, in bringing half a continent to lawfulness and peace.
2. The quality of being describable by laws of nature, or of happening or behaving in accordance with certain general principles that always hold good.
1938B. F. Skinner Behavior of Organisms i. 25 The early classical examples of the reflex were those of which the lawfulness was obvious. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics vi. 210 To say that causality is the belief in the lawfulness of nature..is therefore quite meaningless. 1959[see lawful a. 6]. 1972Science 16 June 1208/3 Experiences..that do not show consistent patterns..will be distinguished from those phenomena which do show general lawfulness. |
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