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Liege   /lidʒ/   Listen
noun
Liege  n.  
1.
A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign. "The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents."
2.
The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. "A liege lord seems to have been a lord of a free band; and his lieges, though serving under him, were privileged men, free from all other obligations, their name being due to their freedom, not to their service."


adjective
Liege  adj.  
1.
Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. "She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there."
2.
Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
3.
(Old Law) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
Liege homage (Feudal Custom), that homage of one sovereign or prince to another which acknowledged an obligation of fealty and services.
Liege poustie (Scots Law), perfect, i. e., legal, power; specif., having health requisite to do legal acts.
Liege widowhood, perfect, i. e., pure, widowhood. (Obs.)





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"Liege" Quotes from Famous Books



... that we would not be empty long. Bloody battles were being waged from Alsace throughout the entire north. Belgian territory had been violated and Liege was putting ...
— My Home In The Field of Honor • Frances Wilson Huard
... to Brussels.[3] Steenken was, by virtue of the same letters patent, awarded an annual pension of fifty Rhenish florins in consideration of the services rendered to the duke of Burgundy, and on condition of his submitting to his liege Philip the Good all other instruments he might make in the future. There is nothing singular in the early date of this invention, for the 15th century was distinguished for the extraordinary impulse which the patronage ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various
... animal is more intelligent than the overrated common or garden dog, which makes no distinction between people calling in the small hours and people calling in broad daylight under the obvious patronage of its own master. This beast of yours is evidently more in sympathy with its liege lord. Down, Fido, down! I wonder they allow you to keep such noisy creatures—but stay! I was forgetting you keep a piano. After that, I suppose, ...
— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill
... at the man: then Modred smote his liege Hard on the helm which many a heathen sword Had beaten thin; while Arthur at one blow, Striking the last stroke with Excalibur, Slew him, and all ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson
... door closed softly behind him. To his amazement, Winneburg saw before him, standing at the further end of the small room, the Emperor Rudolph, entirely alone. The Count was about to kneel awkwardly, when his liege strode ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr


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