homage

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  1. noun Ceremonial acknowledgment by a vassal of allegiance to his lord under feudal law.
  2. noun Special honor or respect shown or expressed publicly. See Synonyms at honor.

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  • The new personage who now attracted my homage was the locomotive-driver. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
  • We all loved Pavement and I think we thought of this as our homage, although listening back it doesn't really sound like them at all. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • Nicholas Breton, in his poem The Pilgrimage to Paradise coyned with the Countess of Pembroke's Love_, 1592, and another work of his, The Countess of Pembroke's Passion (first printed from manuscript in 1867), pays the Countess, who was merely his literary patroness, a homage which is indistinguishable from the ecstatic utterances of a genuine and overmastering passion. —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • The news of his good fortune had preceded him, and he received all that homage which is invariably shown to a man who has many creditors, and the means of satisfying all their demands. —  The King's Own
  • Feudalism was mostly a very human thing; the nearest contemporary name for it was homage, a word which almost means humanity. —  A Short History of England
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, probably from omne, homme, man, from Latin homō, homin-; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, humage, homenage, omenage, etc., French hommage = Provencal homenatge, homenage = Spanish homenaje = Portuguese homenagem = Italian omaggio (Middle Latin reflex homagium), from Middle Latin hominaticum, homenaticum, homaticum, homage, the service of a vassal or ‘man,’ from Latin homo (homin-), a man, Middle Latin a vassal: see Homo.
  2. from Old French hommager, pay homage to, from hommage, homage: see homage, n.
 

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