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Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: law
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Synonyms: recompense, remuneration, restitution, amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, mends, quittal, recompensation, redress, relief, reparation, requital, requite, satisfaction
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A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: law
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A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: law
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Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).