Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in fief

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: in- -fief
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

As a heritable right, according to the prevailing feudal obligations.

Example Sentences

"In some cases, sovereignties have been given in fief, and sovereigns have voluntarily rendered themselves feudatories to others […]."
"William the Conqueror's insistence that the men who accompanied him from Normandy hold their English lands from him in fief was an innovation, not the simple importation of an established French "feudal system.""
"Sometimes the duchy was granted in fief, sometimes held by the king in person."

Questions

What does in fief mean?: As a heritable right, according to the prevailing feudal obligations.

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