death-prices
death-prices is the plural of death-price.
Meaning of death-price
Noun
death-price (plural death-prices)
- A monetary value assigned to a person based on their social rank, representing the compensation to be paid by an offender to the victim’s family in the event of unlawful killing.
- Sad lays were sung about the beset king,
the vicious raids and ravages of Grendel,
[...] how he would never
parley or make peace with any Dane
nor stop his death-dealing nor pay the death-price.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7
- Sad lays were sung about the beset king,
Questions about death-prices
- What is death-prices the plural of?
- Death-prices is the plural of death-price.
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