Liege vs Monarch - What's the difference?
liege | monarch |
A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
* Tennyson
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.
(obsolete, legal) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II, Scene II, line 25.
The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
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*1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 41:
*:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch ? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
As nouns the difference between liege and monarch
is that liege is a free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign while monarch is the ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.As an adjective liege
is sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.As a proper noun Liège
is a province in Wallonia, Belgium.liege
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- a liege lord
- She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; / And he, he reverenced his liege lady there.
- a liege''' man; a '''liege subject
- (Burrill)
monarch
English
Noun
(en noun)- Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.
