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===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|laweful}}, equivalent to {{suffix|en|law|ful|nocat=1}}, conflated with {{
===Pronunciation===
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* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lawful.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɔːfʊl|
===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}
# {{lb|en|legal}} Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
#: '''''Lawful''' money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.''▼
#: {{synonyms|en|just|legal|legitimate|licit}}
#: {{antonyms|en|nonlawful|unlawful}}
▲#:
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2024 February 7|author=Philip Haigh|title=Railway's fragile resilience|journal=RAIL|issue=1002|page=3|text=The laws are controversial. Forcing someone to work during a '''lawful''' strike is a major step. It was always likely to inflame a situation, and so it proved with LNER. ASLEF's counter-tactic came as a five-day walkout, which would have been the longest stoppage for many years had LNER not withdrawn its plan.}}
# Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1776|author=w:Jeremy Bentham|mainauthor=w:John Lind|publisher=Thomas Cadell|location=London|chapter=A Short Review of the [[w:United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration]]|title=An Anſwer to the [[w:United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration]] of the American Congress|page=121|url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_20519|passage=Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are '''lawful''' to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=George Ortega|title=Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial|passage={{...}} so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of '''lawful''' causes stemming from prior events {{...}}}}
# {{senseid|en|RPG}} {{lb|en|RPG}} Of a [[character#Noun|character]]: having an [[alignment#English: RPG|alignment]] which makes them tend to follow the [[law#Noun|laws]] and [[convention#Noun|conventions]] of [[society#Noun|society]].
#: {{coord|en|chaotic|neutral}}
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====Translations====
{{trans-top|conforming to or recognised by law or rules}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|قانوني|tr=qānūniyy}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|законен}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|合法|tr=héfǎ de|alt=合法的
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|wettig}}, {{t+|nl|rechtmatig}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lainmukainen}}, {{t+|fi|laillinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|légal}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|კანონიერი}}
* German: {{t+|de|gesetzlich}}, {{t+|de|legal}}, {{t|de|rechtsmäßig}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|törvényes}}, {{t+|hu|törvényszerű}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|löglegur}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|dleathach}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|合法|tr=ごうほうな, gōhō na|alt=合法な|sc=Jpan}}
* Korean: {{t-needed|ko}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|lēgitimus}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|likumīgs}}
{{trans-mid}}▼
* Luxembourgish: {{t|lb|gesetzlech}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|законит}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|laweful}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|ǣwlīċ}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|prawowierny}}, {{t|pl|prawomierny}}, {{t+|pl|prawomocny}}, {{t+|pl|legalny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|legal}}, {{t+|pt|legalizado}}
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|yasal}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-top|operating according to some law or fundamental principle}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|oikeutettu}}
===Noun===
{{en-noun}}
# {{lb|en|role-playing games}} A [[character]] having a lawful [[alignment]].
===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aflluw|awfull}}
==Middle English==
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{{head|enm|adjective}}
# {{alternative form of|
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