vassals
- plural of vassal.
Example Sentences
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I’ll note that the demon is a more honest and fair negotiator than his vassals, who occasionally cheat and are punished in exactly the way you’re hoping to see.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Because of our past forays, these knights have long been vassals without lords.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
“But if you read between the lines, that’s what it means—these were vassals, probably of Tikal directly and Teotihuacán indirectly.”
From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024
A lord accepted pledges of loyalty, called a pledge of fealty, from other free men called his vassals; in return for their support in war he offered them protection and land-grants called fiefs.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Instead, in the by-now familiar hegemonic pattern, they tried to force the rulers of the vanquished state to become their vassals.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
