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Manrent

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as manred.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
  • Word Usage
    "Edinburght, whare the one, to witt Caldar youngar, remaned whill his band of manrent to the Cardinall was the meanes of his deliverance, and the other, to witt Ormestoun, fread him self by leapping of the wall of the Castell, betuix ten houris and allevin befoir none; and so breakin ward, [377] he eschaped preassone, which he injustlye sufferred."
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