Lief vs Lien - What's the difference?
lief | lien |
(archaic) beloved, dear, agreeable
(archaic) willing
(archaic, except UK dialectal) Readily, willingly.
* 1869 , RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone , II:
(obsolete) A tendon.
(legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
(Bible, archaic)
As a noun lief
is body.As a verb lien is
.lief
English
Adjective
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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.
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* (l) * (l), (l) ----lien
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
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* lienholderVerb
(head)- If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...