folkmote,
- a variation of folkmoot.
Example Sentences
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The Kabyles know no authority whatever besides that of the djemmaa, or folkmote of the village community.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
Everywhere we see the same federations of small communities and guilds, the same "sub-towns" round the mother city, the same folkmote, and the same insigns of its independence.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
Under special conditions she has a voice in the village folkmote, and has a right to a share in the village landed property on equal footing with men.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
Moreover, there was no other authority to enforce the decisions of the folkmote besides its own moral authority.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
Has not Spenser his law-terms: his capias, defeasance, and duresse; his emparlance; his enure, essoyn, and escheat; his folkmote, forestall and gage; his livery and seasin, wage and waif?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
