LAWFUL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of lawful in English

(Definition of lawful from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of lawful from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of lawful from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of lawful

lawful
It stressed the lawful operation of the universe under a providential order.
It was a non-trivial, epistemological move to define change as lawful, and to conceive of a series of changes as a meaningful unit.
Such actions are normally based on legitimate or lawful claims or, as the government claims, are 'internal conflicts within the people'.
By "proper" we mean that there is a lawful physical relationship between the distal property and the input.
Specifically, in the examination of the stability of negative emotionality in infancy and early childhood evidence exists for a lawful discontinuity between emotionality and outcomes.
As will be shown, relational analyses alone may be inadequate in capturing lawful patterns of occurrence.
Again: among all previously memorized action recipes that allow you to make lawful changes in sensory stimulation, only some are applicable at the present moment.
These observations suggest that the independent criterion alone may have been sufficient in discerning lawful (and confirmatory) relationships among sounds.
According to the claims of the target article, the lump should not be perceived since the perceiver does not interact with it in "lawful" ways.
However, emotionally coherent dialogues can serve as moderating variables leading to lawful discontinuity as well.
It is possible to make some lawful predictions about how test performance would change, though.
The failed attempts at moral reasoning, supplication, and escape emphasize the absolute failure of the lawful, which even apprehension and punishment cannot restore.
These two very different yet lawful results suggest two underlying processes with different constraints or computational goals.
This means that the unity of the object is based on the lawful unity of the inertial systems.
Consequently, a lawful act on one side of a frontier may be illegal on the other side.
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Translations of lawful

in Chinese (Traditional)
合法的,依法的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
合法的,依法的…
in Spanish
legal, legítimo, legal [masculine-feminine…
in Portuguese
legal, legítimo…
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合法の, 合法(ごうほう)の…
yasal, kanunî, kanuni…
légal/-ale, légal, légitime…
legal, legítim…
wettig…
lovlig…
laglig, rättmätig…
sah…
gesetzmäßig, rechtmäßig…
lovlig, rettmessig, lov-/rettmessig…
законний…
законный…
قانوني…
legální, legitimní…
sesuai hukum, sah…
ผิดกฏหมาย, ถูกกฏหมาย…
đúng luật, hợp pháp…
legalny, prawowity…
합법적인…
legale, legittimo, lecito…
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