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Liegeman   Listen
noun
Liegeman  n.  (pl. liegemen)  Same as Liege, n., 2.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Liegeman" Quotes from Famous Books



... seem to involve an indirect surrender, either now or hereafter, on the part of the Holy See of some of its power, as a high-priest or grand pontiff, who was also a secular prince, might prove less pliant than an ordinary liegeman of the Church. But the men of 697 acted, as we must allow, sagaciously enough, when they presented their young country to the consideration of the papacy as possessing a party of order, into which the Church entered, and from which ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

... himself free from the fascinations of "that sorceress." It said that all was settled with King William; Hereward was to come to Winchester. She had the king's writ for his safety ready to send to him; the king would receive him as his liegeman. Alftruda would receive him as her husband. Archbishop Lanfranc had made difficulties about the dissolution of his marriage with Torfrida, but gold would do all things at ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... old man. With some misgivings they had warned him against recklessly introducing a strange muko, without first consent of the village. Jisuke assured them against what was actual fact. Wataru Sampei was a samurai, of samurai stock, and liegeman to his own old masters of Kai province. It was with the consent and approval of the dying man that O'Kiku was united to him. The household in Nippon is adamant in its secrets to the outside world—and that against the most prying curiosity anywhere found. O'Kiku lay in of her child ...
— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville



Words linked to "Liegeman" :   vassal, liege subject, feudatory



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