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Fief

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feoffnoun(law) A fief.

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feoffnoun(law) A fief.
feenounAn amount charged for a privilege.
estatenounThe collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
domainnounA field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
clannoun(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
strongholdnounA place built to withstand attack; a fortress.
feudnounA state of long-standing mutual hostility.
fiefholdnoun(uncommon) A fief (that is held).
fiefholdingnoun(uncountable) The act or practice of holding fiefs.
vassalnoun(historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
beneficenounLand granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
feudatorynounA feudal vassal.
rerefiefnoun(Scots law, historical) A fief held by an intermediary or subtenant
knight's feenoun(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession.
honornoun(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
fieltynounThe state of owing one's service (particularly of a soldier, warrior, knight, rider) to a king, queen, or other ruler.
homagenoun(countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
feoffmentnoun(law, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession
fineSenses referring to subjective quality.
afterlehennoun(historical) A medieval fief, which a liege lord received then subsequently enfeoffed wholly or partially to a vassal or vassals.

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