Pecuniary vs Manbote - What's the difference?
pecuniary | manbote |
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.
(legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
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
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Adjective
(-)manbote
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Alternative forms
* manbotNoun
(en-noun)- 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
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