lawfully
/lˈɔfəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Conforming to the law; legally.
Example Sentences
- "This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined."
- "He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lawefully
Inflected Forms
more lawfully (comparative)
most lawfully (superlative)