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lawsome

lawsome adjective: characterised or marked by lawfulness; lawful.

Adjective

lawsome (comparative more lawsome, superlative most lawsome)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Characterised or marked by lawfulness; lawful
    • The lawsome owner of that expensive palomino is a real college boy with a generous allowance from a daddy in the cattle trade.2001, Tabor Evans, Longarm 270
    • But Lon Camp was gifted with a more legal turn of mind than the others and he said, “Now holt on a mite . Ifn Dad an' Hughie really have gone an' claim-staked this here fountain, then I reckon they got a lawsome right to her. […]”2017, Robert Edmond Alter, Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers, page 74

Forms of lawsome

comparativemore lawsome
superlativemost lawsome

Origin of lawsome

From law + -some.

Questions about lawsome

What does lawsome mean?
Lawsome means characterised or marked by lawfulness; lawful.
What part of speech is lawsome?
Lawsome is an adjective.

Words near lawsome in the dictionary

  1. laws-a-mercy
  2. lawscape
  3. lawscapes
  4. LAWSes
  5. Lawshall
  6. lawsome
  7. lawson
  8. Lawson comfort criteria
  9. Lawson comfort criterion
  10. Lawson criterion
  11. Lawson cypress

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