liege

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  1. noun A lord or sovereign to whom allegiance and service are due according to feudal law.
  2. noun A vassal or subject owing allegiance and services to a lord or sovereign under feudal law.
  3. noun A loyal subject to a monarch.
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  • It was an odd thing to say of a wizard for her liege, but he heard it in her voice. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • All the shields carried the Lidless Eye ; most also had their own or their liege-lords' blazons quartered with it, the heraldry of knight and baron and their vassals and paid men. —  Map.html
  • However, our liege should be permitted to stuff his face as he sees fit. —  Baltimore Reporter
  • For the lord to be lord and the liege, liege, the father to be father and the son, son True indeed! —  The Sayings Of Confucius
  • If the lord were no lord and the liege no liege, the father no father and the son no son, though the grain were there, could I get anything to eat 12. —  The Sayings Of Confucius
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, entitled to feudal allegiance, from Late Latin laeticus, being a semifree colonist in Gaul, from laetus, a semifree colonist, of Germanic origin; see lē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English lege, lige, lyge, liege, from Old French lige, liege = Provencal litge = Italian ligio (Middle Latin reflex ligius, legius), liege, free (Anglo-French seignour lige, Old French lige seignur, liege lord, home lige, liege man, a liege lord being the lord of a free band, and his liege men privileged free men, bound to him, but free from other service, even that of their sovereign); from Middle High German ledic, ledec, free, unhindered, empty, German ledig, empty, vacant, = Middle Low German ledich, leddich = Middle Dutch ledich, idle, unemployed, = Icelandic lidhugr, free, unhindered (not found in Gothic (Moesogothic)); prob. formed (as an adjective in -ig, English -y) on the noun remaining in Middle English lethe, leisure, = Middle Dutch *lede, in neg. unlede, business, trouble. Cf. Anglo-Saxon unlǣde = Gothic (Moesogothic) unlēds, poor, later unlēdi, poverty. The history of the word is incomplete.
 

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