Synonyms for legislation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lej-is-ley-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛdʒ ɪsˈleɪ ʃən |
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Définition of legislation
Origin :- 1650s, from French législation, from Late Latin legislationem (nominative legislatio), properly two words, legis latio, "proposing (literally 'bearing') of a law;" see legislator.
- noun law of a government
- What you have done in one village, why should not legislation do throughout a kingdom?
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and why not Legislation's?
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- The legislation of details in this domain becomes of necessity an injustice.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Here again our legislation is fettered by ignorance and religious dogma.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- You speak of the possibility of legislation to prevent this.
- Extract from : « War Taxation » by Otto H. Kahn
- What, then, he said, is still remaining to us of the work of legislation?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- You remind me of what I know—that legislation is never perfect.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- As if all our legislation must be done to-day, and nothing put off until the morrow.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- And yet there is nothing which tends more to the improvement of mankind than legislation and colonization.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- The question is often asked, What are the limits of legislation in relation to morals?
- Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
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