Lief vs Fief - What's the difference?
lief | fief |
(archaic) beloved, dear, agreeable
(archaic) willing
(archaic, except UK dialectal) Readily, willingly.
* 1869 , RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone , II:
An estate held of a superior on condition of military service.
Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
(metaphor) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.
As nouns the difference between lief and fief
is that lief is body while fief is an estate held of a superior on condition of military service.lief
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*Adverb
- these great masters of the art, who would far liefer see us little ones practice it, than themselves engage [...].
- I'd as lief have one as t'other.
