🔤 Wergild ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
khoon bahaye ki qeemat, qadeem qanoon ke mutabiq jaan ka badla
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ENGLISH
📚noun
wergild
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈwɜː.ɡɪld/
Phonetic: /wer gild/
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DEFINITION
blood money paid in ancient Anglo Saxon law to compensate for death
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
The offender family paid a substantial wergild to settle the feud.
Ancient legal codes determined exact wergild based on social status.
Payment of wergild prevented long bloody wars between rival family clans.
The noble king enforced the traditional wergild system across his realm.
Historians analyzed how wergild maintained order in medieval Germanic societies.
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