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Fief vs Rief - What's the difference?

fief | rief |

As nouns the difference between fief and rief

is that fief is an estate held of a superior on condition of military service while rief is alternative form of reif robbery.

fief

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An estate held of a superior on condition of military service.
  • Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
  • (metaphor) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.

    • Synonyms

    * manor

    Derived terms

    * fiefdom * in fief

    Related terms

    * enfeoff * fee * feoff * feoffee

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    rief

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (robbery).
  • * 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford'', quoted in ''Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:
    • [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
  • * 1822 , Alexander Peterkin, Notes on Orkney and Zetland , page 61:
    • here the record is quite defaced and worn out, insomuch that only the words of the charge, viz. extortions, insolvencies, riefs , and oppressions, can be discovered
  • * (rfdate) James Taylor, The Pictorial History of Scotland , volume 2, page 133:
    • Murders, riefs , and spoliations became more common on the Borders after this raid than they had ever been before.

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