Lawfully

Definitions: Lawfully

Lawfully

Adverb

1. In a manner acceptable to common custom; "you cannot do this legitimately!".

2. By law; conforming to the law; "we are lawfully wedded now".

Date "lawfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Lawfully

Synonyms: de jure (adv), legally (adv), legitimately (adv), licitly (adv), wrongfully (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: illegally (adv), illegitimately (adv), unlawfully (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Lawfully

English words defined with "lawfully": Congeable ♦ de jure ♦ homesteader ♦ legally, legitimately ♦ Mailable ♦ nester ♦ right of search, ringed ♦ squatter ♦ token money ♦ wrongfully. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lawfully": Cancellation of Removal ♦ European firearms pass ♦ Lawful Permanent Resident ♦ Permanent Resident. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Lawfully Good Eating (reference) Lawfully Wedded Stranger (Harlequin Presents, No 1389) (reference) Vultures in Eagle's Clothing: Lawfully Breaking Free from Ignorance Related Slavery (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Eliot	Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully claim.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	A man with a sword in his hand demands my purse in the high-way, when perhaps I have not twelve pence in my pocket: this man I may lawfully kill. (Second Treatise of Government)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Eighth.�The standard set by law in each country with respect to the conditions of labour should have due regard to the equitable economic treatment of all workers lawfully resident therein. (reference)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In 1992, the GOE set the exchange rate and allowed what were formerly black market exchange houses to act lawfully under the supervision of the CBE. In the past, the black market served businessmen and individuals travelling abroad. (references)
Children	Australia	In April a report into the sterilization of disabled girls and young women, commissioned by the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, found that the official data is unreliable and anecdotal evidence suggests that girls continue to be sterilized in numbers that far exceed those that have been lawfully authorized. (references)
Economic History	Norway	Government Monopolies: Foreign and domestic investors are lawfully barred from investing in industries monopolized by the government including postal services, railways, and the domestic production and retail sale of alcohol. (references)
Human Rights	Belarus	Law enforcement and prison officials lawfully may use physical force only against detainees and prisoners who are violent, have refused to obey the instructions of the prison administration, or have violated "maliciously" the terms of their sentences; however, human rights monitors repeatedly reported that investigators coerced confessions through beatings and psychological pressure. (references)
Worker Rights	Qatar	In extreme cases, employers have deported employees at the end of their contract in order to avoid paying them the lawfully mandated end-of-service bonus. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause--as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	But I want to ask sportsmen and others who lawfully own guns to join us in a common campaign to reduce gun violence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Lawfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lawfully" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	153	25,427

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lawfully": lawfully-begotten, lawfully-established.
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Language		Translations for "lawfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ligjërisht (de jure, justly, legally), legalisht (legally), në mënyrë të ligjshme. (various references)

Chinese		合法地 (legitimately). (various references)

Dutch		terecht (rightfully), met recht (rightfully). (various references)

Finnish		oikeutetusti (rightfully). (various references)

French		� juste titre, � bon droit. (various references)

German		gesetzlich (by law, lawful, legal, legally, legitimate, legitimately, licit, statutorily, statutory). (various references)

Hebrew		כ�"ת ו�"ין. (various references)

Italian		con diritto (cum new, cum rights, rightfully, with rights), a giusto titolo (rightfully), a buon diritto (rightfully). (various references)

Korean		합법� �으로. (various references)

Pig Latin		awfullylay

Portuguese		com direito (rightfully), a justo título (rightfully). (various references)

Romanian		legal (jural, juridical, juristic, juristical, just, justifiable, lawful, legal, legally, legitimate, licit, rightful, sound), pe temeiuri legale. (various references)

Russian		законно (in law, justly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zakonito (legally, rightfully), važeći (current, effect: in effect, passable, valid), ispravno (correctly, order: in order, square, upright, uprightly). (various references)

Swedish		rättmätigt (rightfully), med rätt (rightfully). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	iuste. (various references)
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Language	Date	Source	1 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Oidamen de oti kaloV o nomoV ean tiV autw nomimwV crhtai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Scimus autem quia bona est lex si quis ea legitime utatur
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And we witen that the lawe is good, if ony man vse it lawefulli;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We knowe yt the lawe is good yf a man vse it lawfully
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But we know that the law is good, if a man useth it lawfully;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,
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Language	1 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 8
Bulgarian	А на вечния Цар, на безсмъртния, невидимия, единствения Бог, да бъде чест и слава до вечни векове. Амин.
Cebuano	Kita nasayud nga ang kasugoan maayo, kon ang tawo magagamit niini subay sa balaod,
Chinese	我們知 �" 律法原是好的、只要人 �"� 得合宜．
Croatian	A mi znamo da je Zakon dobar ako se tko njime služi zakonito,
Danish	Men vi vide, at Loven er god, dersom man bruger den lovmæssigt,
Dutch	Doch wij weten, dat de wet goed is, zo iemand die wettelijk gebruikt;
Finnish	Mutta me tiedämme, että laki on hyvä, kun sitä lain mukaisesti käytetään
French	Nous n`ignorons pas que la loi est bonne, pourvu qu`on en fasse un usage légitime,
German	Wir wissen aber, daß das Gesetz gut ist, so es jemand recht braucht
Haitian Creole	Nou konnen lalwa se yon bagay ki bon depi ou sèvi avè l' jan ou dwe sèvi avè l' la.
Hungarian	Tudjuk pedig, hogy a törvény jó, ha valaki törvényszerûen él vele,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kita tahu bahwa hukum agama adalah baik, kalau digunakan sebagaimana mestinya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi kita mengetahui bahwa syariat Taurat itu baik, jikalau orang menjalankan dia dengan sepatutnya,
Italian	Certo, noi sappiamo che la legge è buona, se uno ne usa legalmente;
Korean	그 러 나 사 람 이 율 법 을 법 있 게 �"� 면 율 법 은 � 한 것 인 줄 우 리 �" 아 노 라
Latvian	Bet mçs zinâm, ka likums ir labs, ja to pareizi pielieto.
Maori	Otira, e matau ana tatou he mea pai te ture, ki te rite te meatanga e te tangata ki ta te ture tikanga;
Modern Greek	Εξευρομεν δε οτι ο νομος ειναι καλος, εαν τις μεταχειριζηται αυτον νομιμως,
Norwegian	Men vi vet at loven er god dersom nogen bruker den på lovlig vis,
Portuguese	Sabemos, porém, que a lei é boa, se alguém dela usar legitimamente,
Rumanian	Noi wtim cq Legea este bunq dacq cineva o kntrebuinyeazq bine,
Russian	б НЩ ЪОБЕН, ЮФП ЪБЛПО �"П�'Т, ЕУМЙ ЛФП ЪБЛПООП Х� ПФТЕ�'МСЕФ ЕЗП,
Shuar	Yus wakeramun nekaatin tura tunaan suritkiatin akupkamuka nekas pénkeraiti. Nu paant nékaji.
Spanish	Sabemos, sin embargo, que la ley es buena, si uno la usa legítimamente.
Swahili	Twajua kwamba Sheria ni njema, kama ikitumiwa ipasavyo.
Swedish	Men vi veta att lagen är god, om man nämligen brukar den såsom lagen bör brukas,
Thai	แต่เราทั้งหลายรู้อยู่ว่าพระราชบัญญัตินั้น�"ี ถ้าผู้ใ�"ใช้ให้ถูกต้อง
Ukrainian	А ми зна�"мо, що добрий Закон, коли хто законно вжива�" його,
Uma	Ta'inca moto kalompe' -na Atura Musa, asala tapake' ntuku' ohea to makono.
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Derivations
	Words ending with "lawfully": unlawfully. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lawfully" (pronounced lô"fulē)
6	l ô" f u l ē	unlawfully.
4	-f u l ē	anencephaly, artfully, blissfully, carefully, cheerfully, delightfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, fitfully, forcefully, frightfully, gainfully, gleefully, gracefully, gratefully, helpfully, hopefully, joyfully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, peacefully, pitifully, playfully, purposefully, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ruefully, skillfully, successfully, tactfully, tastefully, tearfully, thankfully, thoughtfully, truthfully, unsuccessfully, usefully, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully.
3	-u l ē	abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-l-u-w-y"
	-1 letter: awfully.
	-2 letters: lawful.
	-3 letters: allyl, awful, flawy, fully, wally.
	-4 letters: ally, fall, flaw, flay, full, lall, lull, wall, waly, waul, yawl.
	-5 letters: all, awl, fay, flu, fly, law, lay, way, yaw.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-l-u-w-y"
	+1 letter: wailfully.
	+2 letters: unlawfully.
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