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Definition

a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service

or:

a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

He was her liege lord.

liege = a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service

a liege subject
First, mighty liege, tell me your Highness' pleasure,
William Shakespeare -- King Richard III
Mistress Affery thought that on reaching the hall, she saw the door of her liege lord's office standing open, and the room empty.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
'Tis matter of small weight, my liege, yet will I touch upon it, an' it please your Grace.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper

liege = a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service

Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against mine age?
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
Gentle my liege—[Kneeling.
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
'tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her.
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
We can go to Brussels, Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasburg.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
First, mighty liege, tell me your highness' pleasure, What from your grace I shall deliver to him.
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
—The Saxon porkers, whom I have slain, they were the foes of my country, and of my lineage, and of my liege lord.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Two of these were Jewish dressmakers, middle-aged sisters from Liege.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
"Hnnrh," growled my liege lord, moving some papers and managing to sit in the only puddle of spilled coffee on an otherwise dry bench.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Only a son or daughter of Amber's late liege may walk this Pattern and live; and it gives to such a person a power over Shadow.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
It would never occur to him to suspect that one of them was the daughter of his liege lord.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
"To get their own bread they must overdose the king's lieges; and that's a bad sort of treason, Mr. Mawmsey—undermines the constitution in a fatal way."
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Our strength frightened Palancar's nobles and they pled with their liege for peace.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
— My liege, and madam,—to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night is night, and time is time.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
"Robb Stark was my liege lord," said Lord Wyman.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
The lords of the Vale will never accept such as their liege.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

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