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/kˌɒdɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌkɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order
How To Use codification In A Sentence
- In this text Vizenor attempts to balance the issues of heard language and literary language as well as the codification of bear presences that are also present in the traditional birchbark scrolls.
- We should also be very suspicious of any codification project which attempts to pre-empt or disguise the irreducibly dispositive element in decision-making.
- And we don't mean a John-Roberts-word-fumbling not swearing in, we mean a full-fledged non-codification of their membership in the 112th Congress. HUFFPOST HILL - I Do Solemnly Swear That I Will Support And Def--Hey Are Those Crab Puffs?
- I can find nothing sharp (or susceptible of schoolmaster's codification) in the different degrees of 'liveliness' in hypotheses concerning the universe, or distinguish a priori between legitimate and illegitimate cravings. Familiar Letters of William James II
- One reason ethics defies final codification is that what we ought to do changes according to circumstances. The Times Literary Supplement
- To a degree this extension of powers was nominal rather than real, for much was a rationalization and codification of hitherto haphazard statute and common law, or a legitimation of what was already police practice.
- The very thing that enables expertise to develop, namely the codification of expert language, leads inevitably to entrainment of thinking.
- The codification problem is compounded by short cuts. Times, Sunday Times
- The nobility sought to defend its privileged status against incomers by genealogical codification, strict endogamy, or legal barriers.
- Out went the old law and any piecemeal codification of it. Times, Sunday Times