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Predictably, various proponents of the "gay marriage = slippery slope to hell in a handbasket where everyone can marry their sister" or "omg the liberal ay-leet are a-tryin 'to dess-troy Jeee-zuss with their The Gay Agendas!" arguments are coming out of the woodwork, riding their highest horses onto oversized soapboxes and, well, bitching and moaning like a pack of moaning bitches.

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  1. An ancient English court; originally, the assembly of the men of a township for administering the law of the community. See court-leet. M. Lambert seemeth to be of the opinion that the leets of our time doo yeeld some shadow of the politike institution of Alfred. Holinshed, Descrip. of England, ii. 4. Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions Keep leets and law-days, and in session sit With meditations lawful? Shak., Othello. iii. 3. 140.
  2. The district subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet. In their renewal of this system the Commons seem to make sheriffs in their leets answer for the provincial synod. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., iii.
  3. The day on which a court-leet was held; also, the right to hold such a court, which in later times could be granted to a baron.

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  • I know about leet (1337) and I have heard about these exclamations of joy Merriam-Webster speaks of, but you're going to tell me folks voted for this over sardoodledom, another contender for WotY?
  • Predictably, various proponents of the "gay marriage = slippery slope to hell in a handbasket where everyone can marry their sister" or "omg the liberal ay-leet are a-tryin 'to dess-troy Jeee-zuss with their The Gay Agendas!" arguments are coming out of the woodwork, riding their highest horses onto oversized soapboxes and, well, bitching and moaning like a pack of moaning bitches. —  Dangerous Intersection
  • As sooin as he saw that he picked it up an' held it up to th' leet, an stroked it, and luk'd at me an' smiled; and he seemed to tak a fancy to me all at once, an' axed m'e whear aw lived, an what they call'd me, an' a lot o' things beside. —  Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
  • 'Twere a breet mornin', an t' chalk cliffs o' Flamborough were glistenin' i' t' sun-leet. —  Tales of the Ridings
  • I could see t' leet-house at Spurn, and reight i' front o' me were Bridlington wi' t' Priory Church and up beyond were fields an' fields of corn wi' farm-houses set amang t' plane-trees an' t' sun-leet glistenin' on their riggins. —  Tales of the Ridings
 

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  1. Cf. lathe, lath, from Anglo-Saxon lǣth, a territorial division: see lathe.
  2. apparently from Icelandic leiti, a share, a part; but cf. Anglo-Saxon hlēt, hly¯t, hliét, variant forms of hlot, lot, share: see lot.
  3. A dial. form of let.
 

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