🔤 Wergilds ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
khoon baha, qatal ka muawza, jaan ka badla, tawaan
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ENGLISH
📚noun
wergilds
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈwɜːrɡɪldz/
Phonetic: /wur gildz/
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DEFINITION
compensation paid for killing a person, man price, blood money in old law
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
In early germanic law, wergilds were payments made to the family of a person who had been killed.
The amount of wergild depended on the social rank and status of the victim.
Paying wergild helped prevent endless blood feuds between rival families.
The king set the wergild for a nobleman much higher than that for a commoner.
Historians study wergilds to understand how ancient societies valued human life and maintained order.
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