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Liege - What does it mean?

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liege

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
  • The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
    • a liege lord
  • * Tennyson
    • She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; / And he, he reverenced his liege lady there.
  • Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal.
    • a liege''' man; a '''liege subject
  • (obsolete, legal) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
    • (Burrill)

    Related terms

    * liege lord * liegeman ----

    Not English

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