Vassal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VASSAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to subject
• To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
• vassalize
NOUN:
• a dependent, a retainer
• a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
• a person or country in a subordinate position to another
• man given land by a lord in return for military service
• The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
• A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
• a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
ADJECTIVE:
• Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
• of or relating to a vassal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a person granted the use of land by a feudal lord in return for homage and allegiance

Words related to VASSAL

vassail10 vassaless12 vassalled13 vassalling14 vassals10

Words that contain VASSAL

vassals10 envassal11 vassalry14 envassals12 subvassal14 vassalage13 vassaless12 vassalise12 vassalize21 vassalled13 subvassals15 vassalages14 vassalised14 vassalises13 vassalized23 vassalizes22 vassalling14 vassalries13 envassalled15 vassalesses14 vassalising15 vassalizing24 envassalling16

How to use VASSAL in a sentence

• The Djam is a vassal of the Khan of Kelat, but, like most independent Baluch chiefs, only nominally so.
• The great vassal, or fiscal judge, was no longer allowed to practise extortion on those citizens appointed to defend the State.
• He was as yet a powerful vassal, who was considered to be unjustly persecuted.
• Korea, as a Chinese vassal, appealed for Chinese aid.
• I am the vassal of the King, and on my knees have pledged him loyalty and faith, and sworn to defend his life and honour.
• He told them that he was one of the forty vassal chiefs of the great Outina, lord of all the Thimagoa, whose warriors wore armor of gold and silver plate.
• After a time the revolted vassal, finding himself unmolested, was induced to raise his thoughts higher, and commenced a career of conquest.
• But the expulsion of the vassal committed those who took part in it to resist in arms the sovereign lord.
• Ultimately, when the Hittite emperor had secured his sway over northern Syria, he deposed Sutarna II and set Mattiuza as his vassal on the throne of the shrunken Mitanni kingdom.
• Several of the vassal peoples had revolted when they heard of the death of Tiglath-pileser.
• Ashur-bani-pal was selected to be King of Assyria, and Shamash-shum-ukin to be King of Babylon and the vassal of Ashur-banipal.
• The Ethiopian supremacy in Egypt was finally extinguished, and Psamtik, son of Necho, who was appointed the Pharaoh, began to reign as the vassal of Assyria.
• The French strongly objected to the surrender of territory, and were but little convinced of the advantage gained by making the English king once more the vassal of France.
• There was talk of Edward becoming King of France and holding the maritime provinces, while Charles as his vassal should be lord of Paris and the interior districts.
• In both cases alike we are dealing with the revolt of a powerful vassal against a weak king.
• His feudal lord, the King of France, was bound by his most obvious interests to oppose the further aggrandizement of one already too potent for a vassal.
• Her immediate aim was Constantinople, and she had planned to obtain it by means of a large Bulgaria, which should be a vassal state.
• South Germany, hitherto the vassal realm of Austria, now acknowledged the rule of France.
• While Turkey was thus shorn of one of her European provinces, she was doomed to see a rebellious, but victorious vassal make himself master of her Asiatic territories.
• Jerusalem seemed doomed to be among the prizes of an interminable warfare between the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucidae of Syria and in turns vassal to each.
• At Naples, as elsewhere, France set up a vassal state, the Parthenopean Republic, that lived but few weeks and ended in tragedy.
• Finally, it is agreed that the quarrel between the monarch and his vassal shall be settled by a duel between the two champions.
• Make a clear report of my words to the king my lord, that I am the vassal of the king.
• Against this king, a vassal of the foreigner, the War of the Barons burst forth.
• By the feudal law, every tenant or vassal was bound to assist his lord in captivity, by a contribution proportionate to the land he held.
• Thinking him nothing but the kitchen vassal he seemed, the damsel insulted Gareth in every possible way.
• In the encampment were the vassal kings, Deiotarus of Galatia and Ariarathes of Cappadocia, allies who would share the triumph of the victorious Pompeius.
• Stanislaus, the new Polish sovereign, was merely a vassal of Sweden.
• The vassal, moreover, began to think of his own rights and privileges, to value them and to ask that they be enforced.
• A bond of united interests was found between feudal noble and his vassal.

Similar words containing VASS without suffix al

kvass12 cavass11 kavass13 canvass12 kvasses14 vassail10 vassals10 cavasses13 crevasse13 envassal11 kavasses15 vassails11 vassalry14 vavassor14 canvassed15 canvasser14 canvasses14 crevassed15 crevasses14 envassals12 subvassal14 valvassor15 vassalage13 vassaless12 vassalise12 vassalize21 vassalled13 vavassors15 canvassers15 canvassing16 crevassing16 subvassals15 valvassors16 vassalages14 vassalised14 vassalises13 vassalized23 vassalizes22 vassalling14 vassalries13 canvassings17 envassalled15 vassalesses14 vassalising15 vassalizing24 envassalling16

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