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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



... Bavarians, but all are Germans, and for one photograph of the Grand Duke of Hesse and his Duchess you will see here one hundred of "Unser Kaiser" and "Unsere Kaiserin." They have become Imperialists, and the ambitious spirit which animates them is shown by the act of a soldier at Liege who chalked up on a wall: "Kaiser Wilhelm the ...
— A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes • Harriet Julia Jephson

... because he wished to prevent the common people from having a share in their Prussian government, but because the change, if ever it came, would set up a peculiar type of Prussian government; a state-government, as it were, as against the old-time liege-lord master-and-servant conception of ...
— Blood and Iron - Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its - Founder, Bismarck • John Hubert Greusel

... Belgium, and giving directions there, the First Consul returned from Brussels to Paris by way of Maestricht, Liege, ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... Province of Lower Canada and other Our Dominions, and in all and singular actions, causes, pleas, suits, matters, and demands whatsoever, of what kind and nature or sort soever, in as large, ample, and beneficial a manner and form as any other body politic or corporate, or any other Our liege subjects being persons able and capable in law, may or can have, take, purchase, receive, hold, possess, enjoy, retain, sue, implead, or answer, in any ...
— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan

... have flown Since on this very spot, The subjects of a sovereign throne— Liege-master of their lot— This high degree sped o'er the sea, From council-board and tent, "No earthly power can rule the free ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various


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