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uninfeft

uninfeft is the obsolete form of unenfeoffed.

Meaning of unenfeoffed

Adjective

unenfeoffed (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Without a fief.
    • Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […]2001, Michael S. Drake, Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence, →ISBN, page 97
    Synonyms:
    unfeoffed
  2. (historical) Not given out as a fief.
    • Following ‘great murmur and clamour’ because of the non-payment of the expenses of the Household and the abuses of purveyance, it was further provided that the income from the unenfeoffed portions of the Duchy of Lancaster […] should be diverted for the next five years […]1981, J. S. Roskell, Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England, volume 2, →ISBN, page 143

Origin of uninfeft

From un- + infeft.

Questions about uninfeft

What is uninfeft the obsolete form of?
Uninfeft is the obsolete form of unenfeoffed.

Words near uninfeft in the dictionary

  1. uninfecting
  2. uninfectious
  3. uninfectiously
  4. uninfectiousness
  5. uninfective
  6. uninfeft
  7. uninferable
  8. uninferant
  9. uninferrable
  10. uninferred
  11. uninfested

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uninfeft (page history and authors); unenfeoffed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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