Liege vs Thrall - What's the difference?
liege | thrall |
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.
One who is enslaved or under mind control.
* 14th century , ,
* 1915 , ,
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
* 1864 , ,
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A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
As nouns the difference between liege and thrall
is that liege is daybed while thrall is one who is enslaved or under mind control.As a verb thrall is
to make a thrall.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)
thrall
English
Noun
(en noun)- My servant, which that is my thrall by right
- And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
- Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
- [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
- In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.