Witenagemot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈwɪtənəjəməʊt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Witenagemot is a noun meaning (history, countable) A specific session of such an assembly.
Meaning
(history, countable) A specific session of such an assembly.
More Meanings
- (history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.
Example Sentences
To this study was necessarily added that of the ecclesiastical canons; and the knowledge of each must have given the clergy a great superiority, both as legislators in the witenagemot, and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend.
Word Forms
- witenagemots
- wittenagemot
- witenagemote
- wittenagemote
- wittena-gemote
- wittena-gemot
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include witenagemote, wittenagemot, wittenagemote, wittena-gemot, wittena-gemote, witan.
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