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Magbote vs Manbote - What's the difference?

magbote | manbote |

As nouns the difference between magbote and manbote

is that magbote is compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman while manbote is (legal|historical|anglo-saxon) a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.

magbote

English

Alternative forms

* maegbot * maegbote

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
    • Magbote or Mægbote, a Recompence anciently made in Money for the killing of one's Kinsman. — Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6), 1706

    References

    (Webster 1913) English nouns with irregular plurals

    manbote

    English

    Alternative forms

    * manbot

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
    • Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote , was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal.'' — John Lingard, ''A History of England , 1688.
    If a man was slain a special manbot , or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin. — NYT, Daily Lexeme: Maegbot, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)
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    References

    (Webster 1913)