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Meanings of liege in English
A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
Portuguese
vassalo Synonyms
Examples for "vassal"
Examples for "vassal"
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
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.
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 liege in English
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.
6
One only, Wiglaf was his name, would not forsake his liege lord.
7
Nay, my royal liege and love, 'tis but a silken banner neglected.
8
Our liege- lord is He; and on God let the faithful trust!
9
Her occupation as Dick's liege lady, confidante, and tormentor would be gone.
10
Oh, but you always called a king 'my liege,' whoever you were.
11
So, let us assure that nothing untoward ever happens to you, my liege.
12
The rest waited, somewhat reassured now that their liege had taken control again.
13
He was a noble lord, the liege of many doughty knights in Burgundy.
14
Thus did Pungel become the liege lord of the Bohemian nobles.
15
Evil here, my liege, trust me, cannot be; therefore go forth in confidence.
16
This beast of yours is evidently more in sympathy with its liege lord.
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United Kingdom
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