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lawspeakers

lawspeakers is the plural of lawspeaker.

Meaning of lawspeaker

Noun

lawspeaker (plural lawspeakers)

  1. (historical) An official in Scandinavia whose duties included memorizing laws as well as presiding over, and reciting the laws at, regional Things or the Althing.
    • In every legal district there is a lawspeaker, and he has the greatest power among the farmers, because whatever he decides to be the law stands.[…]But whenever there is a conflict in their laws, then the Uppsala laws prevail; and all the other lawspeakers have a lower rank than the one who...1964, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Lee M. Hollander, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, Paperback edition, University of Texas Press, published 2009, page 316
    Synonyms:
    lawman

Questions about lawspeakers

What is lawspeakers the plural of?
Lawspeakers is the plural of lawspeaker.

Words near lawspeakers in the dictionary

  1. Lawsonizes
  2. Lawsonizing
  3. lawsons
  4. lawspeak
  5. lawspeaker
  6. lawspeakers
  7. lawspeaking
  8. lawsuit
  9. lawsuitable
  10. lawsuited
  11. lawsuiting

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