Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LIEGE
LIEGE, n. [supra.]
- A vassal holding a fee by which he is bound to perform certain services and duties to his lord.
- A lord or superior; a sovereign. Note. This is a false application of the word, arising probably from transferring the word from the vassal to the lord; the lord of liege men, being called liege lord. – Johnson.
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