Ese vs Esne - What's the difference?
ese | esne |
(obsolete) ease; pleasure
* :
(Anglo-Saxon, historical) A hireling of servile status; slave.
*1818 , Samuel Heywood, A dissertation upon the distinctions in society :
*1875 , William Stubbs, The constitutional history of England, in its origin and development :
*2011 , David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England :
As nouns the difference between ese and esne
is that ese is hippopotamus while esne is (anglo-saxon|historical) a hireling of servile status; slave.ese
English
Noun
- So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, / I sey this, that they maked been for bothe, / This is to seye, for office, and for ese / Of engendrure,
esne
English
Noun
(en noun)- To an esne , therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any [...]
- [...] of British extraction captured or purchased, — or of the common German stock descended from the slaves of the first colonists: the esne or slave who works for hire; [...]
- [...] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.