liegeful
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liegeful (comparative more liegeful, superlative most liegeful)
- Synonym of liege; serving an independent sovereign or master; faithful like a vassal to his liege.
- 1769, Thomas Chatterton, Eclogue the First:
- When England, reeking from her deadly wound, From her galled neck did pluck the chain away, Kenning her liegeful sons fall all around, (Mighty they fell, —'twas Honour led the fray,)
- 1882, Aubrey De Vere, The Sons of Usnach:
- O would my Love were safe in some far isle, And I were like some shadow passed away ; Yea, though some other liegeful wife, the while, Partook his board at eve, his chase by day : For I am that doomed Babe of long ago ;
- 1886 June, “The Death of Saint Jerome”, in Catholic World, volume 43, number 255, page 348:
- Bending above the imminent grave, I leaned — God's penitent not less than confessor— My total being, body, soul, and spirit, His liegeful servant.