Servant vs Manbote - What's the difference?
servant | manbote |
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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(legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
As nouns the difference between servant and manbote
is that servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation as opposed to a slave while manbote is (legal|historical|anglo-saxon) a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.As a verb servant
is (obsolete) to subject.servant
English
Alternative forms
* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantlyStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----manbote
English
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
, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)
- (Spelman) >
