Definitions for wergilds

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wergilds wer·gild

Spelling: [wur-gild, wer-]

IPA: /ˈwɜr gɪld, ˈwɛr-/

Wergilds is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in wergilds (degilrsw).

Definitions for wergilds

noun

1. (in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
2. money paid to the relatives of a murder victim in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood feud.
3. the amount of money fixed as compensation for the murder or disablement of a person, computed on the basis of rank.
4. (in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
5. money paid to the relatives of a murder victim in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood feud.
6. the amount of money fixed as compensation for the murder or disablement of a person, computed on the basis of rank.

Origin of wergilds

1175-1225; Middle English (Scots) weregylt, Old English wer(e)gild, equivalent to wer man (cognate with Gothic wair, Latin vir) + gild geld²; cognate with

Examples for wergilds

My grief for Olaf is yet deep in my heart; still I remember his death; and now again I come to claim a wergild for him.

Within the ceorlisc class we find similar subdivisions, though they were not marked by a difference in wergild.

In the second year Biargey again urged Howard to try for a wergild.

With the institution of wergild the entire matter becomes one of civil law.

In the charter of Hinestrosa the wergild for homicide is 500 sueldos.

This step is taken when the State compels the parties to enter into an agreement on the basis of the wergild.

All of them seem to have the wergild of twelve hundred shillings.

The thegn is a twelve hundred man; his wergild and his oath countervail those of six ceorls.

Blood money, or wergild, was exacted from wrong-doers as in Saxon times in England.

In the charter of Hinestrosa the wergild for homicide is 500 sueldos.

My grief for Olaf is yet deep in my heart; still I remember his death; and now again I come to claim a wergild for him.

Blood money, or wergild, was exacted from wrong-doers as in Saxon times in England.

All of them seem to have the wergild of twelve hundred shillings.

Within the ceorlisc class we find similar subdivisions, though they were not marked by a difference in wergild.

This step is taken when the State compels the parties to enter into an agreement on the basis of the wergild.

With the institution of wergild the entire matter becomes one of civil law.

In the second year Biargey again urged Howard to try for a wergild.

The thegn is a twelve hundred man; his wergild and his oath countervail those of six ceorls.