Gemote
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gemote is a noun meaning Alternative form of gemot.
Meaning
Alternative form of gemot.
Example Sentences
But Cnut was of nobler stuff than Æthelred, and his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford to resume the work of reconciliation […]
He expelled the Britons, and fixed the Tamar as their limit Then returning to Exeter, he held therein a gemote, at which certain laws still in existence were promulgated, […]
Dean Pound somewhere quoting from Freeman, the English historian, the most noted of the Anglo-Saxon myth-makers, cites the examiner in law who insisted that William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system at the gemote at Salisbury in 1086, […]
Word Forms
- gemotes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gemoot, wittena-gemote, folkmot, tormit, tummit, turmut.
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