leud

[lood]

noun

plural

leuds, leudes 

1. a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of leud¹

1750–60; < Medieval Latin leudēs (plural) < Germanic; compare Old English lēode, German Leute people

Example Sentences

Records show he was charged with leud and lascivious molestation.

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THese Dommerars are leud and most subtyll people: the moste part of these are Walch men, and wyll neuer speake, vnlesse they haue extreame punishment, but wyll gape, and with a maruelous force wyll hold downe their toungs doubled, groning for your charyty, and holding vp their handes full pitiously, so that with their d�epe dissimulation they get very much.

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I began to rebuke her for her leud lyfe and beastly behauor, declaring to her what punishment was prepared and heaped vp for her in the world to come for her fylthy lyuinge and wretched conuersation.

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Also, I haue placed in the end therof their leud language, calling the same pedlers French or Canting.

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I beleue not, and why? because I rede of no such name in the old estatutes of this realme, vnles it be in the margente of the booke, or in the Table, which in the collection and pryntinge was set in; but these were then the commen names of these leud leuterars, Faytores, Robardesmen, Drawlatches, and valyant beggares.

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