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law-biding

law-biding is the obsolete form of law-abiding.

Meaning of law-abiding

Adjective

law-abiding (comparative more law-abiding, superlative most law-abiding)

  1. Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.
    • The law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government surveillance... unless the government begins to break the law.

Forms of law-biding

comparativemore law-biding
superlativemost law-biding

Questions about law-biding

What is law-biding the obsolete form of?
Law-biding is the obsolete form of law-abiding.

Words near law-biding in the dictionary

  1. law shopping
  2. law suit
  3. law suits
  4. law unto oneself
  5. law-abiding
  6. law-biding
  7. law-breaker
  8. law-breakers
  9. law-enforcement
  10. law-enforcer
  11. law-enforcers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: law-biding (page history and authors); law-abiding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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