feudal lord

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As the etymologist Anatoly Liberman has pointed out, in its earliest forms, haga, hegg and hegge, the word meant “enclosure” or “yard,” especially the residence of a feudal lord.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Originally a retainer to a feudal lord, it’s said he joined a Yudano seminary to pray for his lord’s recovery from a deathly illness.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

Cocooned in wealth, he gazes out at the world like a feudal lord who understands his vassals better than they understand themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019

First, we might remember Marx's comment that "the windmill gives you a society with the feudal lord; the steam engine gives you one with the industrial capitalist."

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

Liege, lēj, adj. free, except as within the relations of vassal and feudal lord: under a feudal tenure.—n. one under a feudal tenure: a vassal: a lord or superior, or one who has lieges.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various