manred

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈmænɹɪd/
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/ˈmænɹɪd/ · /ˈmænɹɛd/

Definition of manred

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)Vassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime.
    “There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.”
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noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)Vassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime.
    “There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.”
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Homage, allegiance; support of one's feudal superior.
  3. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)The leader of a troop or retinue.
  4. (uncountable)The primal substance of the Universe
    “They were made of the manred, that is, of the elements in the extremities of their particles and smallest atom … God was in each of the particles of the manred, […]”
    “God pronounce his ineffable name, and Manred, the primal substance of the Universe, was formed. Manred was composed of thousands of teeming atoms in each of which God was present, and each was part of God.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English manrede, manred, from Old English manrǣden (“dependence, homage, service, tribute, due”), equivalent to man + -red and a doublet of manrent. The expected Modern English form…

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Inherited from Middle English manrede, manred, from Old English manrǣden (“dependence, homage, service, tribute, due”), equivalent to man + -red and a doublet of manrent. The expected Modern English form would be mandred (like kindred < Middle English kynrede), but the loss of the term from the spoken vernacular has arrested its normal phonological development (this also accounts for the pronunciation /ˈmænɹɛd/).

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