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Pecuniary vs Manbote - What's the difference?

pecuniary | manbote |

As an adjective pecuniary

is of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.

As a noun manbote is

a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.

pecuniary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
  • *1858 , (Anthony Trollope), (Doctor Thorne) , Chapter IV:
  • *:Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
  • *:The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
  • 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)