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Meanings of feudatory in English
A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
Someone who rules an area, (at least nominally) as vassal to a feudal overlord.
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Examples for "liege"
Examples for "liege"
1
My liege, this fragment was found beside the body deluged in gore.
2
Know you, Baron Neufmarché is my liege lord, as William is his.
3
The games are over, and Gunther, your liege lord, is the winner.
4
And even your husband told me that Gunther was his liege lord.
5
See, my liege, they are taking planks and ladders to the outwork.
1
It is the second of our vassal states to ask for help.
2
How long do you suppose we could escape becoming a vassal power?
3
Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
4
The Cid then became a vassal of the Moorish king of Saragossa.
5
The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
1
The king heard it well and feared him for his liegeman's life.
2
Brunhild, in great anger, employed Hagan, liegeman of Gunther, to murder Siegfried.
3
Hagen sorely wounded Hawart's liegeman with his sword through shield and breastplate.
4
Dole enow it gave them, for no longer might Hawart's liegeman live.
5
I, that am his true and loving liegeman, should be with him.'
1
You are my faithful liege subject, and I know that you love and obey me.
2
Ishmael is my protégé, my liege subject.
3
And he killeth thy deer and robbeth thine own liege subjects even upon the great highways.
4
I will yield up, voluntarily, all right to command in the host-evenmine own liege subjects.
5
To prove this, he summoned his liege subjects to attend a dance in honour of the event.
Usage of feudatory in English
1
Each of us is like some feudatory prince, dependent upon an overlord.
2
He was not twenty when the three feudatory princes broke into open rebellion.
3
By far the greater number of the Indian feudatory chiefs are still under Brahman influence.
4
The Jew, often acquiring wealth in commerce, might become valuable property of some feudatory lord.
5
The horrified Gregory summoned every disaffected feudatory of the empire in effect to disown the emperor.
6
Then, in Ching-t'ang, and he was set on the Chinese throne as a feudatory of the Kitan.
7
It then remained feudatory to Delhi till 1365, when it was captured by the ruler of Mewar.
8
And on his treasury having become depleted, the feudatory princes swarming round him began to give him trouble.
9
Anciently the Kings of Scotland were feudatory to the Kings of England, and did their homage every Christmas day.
10
The Pharaoh divided the feudatory militia of the Delta into two classes, which resided apart in different sets of nomes.
11
Though a feudatory of the rebellious Holkar of Indore, he kept aloof from all Mahratta intrigues, and behaved well to us.
12
It was strongly organized, with feudatory allied states, and carried on an extensive commerce by means of the traders on the coast.
13
A kinsman can never bear a kinsman's prosperity even as a feudatory chief cannot bear to see the prosperity of his overlord.
14
Combine all the feudatory domains of the Rhine and the Danube, you have not so vast an estate as a single western province.
15
All the new pretenders came from the class of the great feudatories.
16
Then liberty halted; the prince of the feudatories held sole and undivided sway.
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