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glebe
[ gleeb ]
noun
- Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
- Archaic. soil; field.
glebe
/ ɡliːb /
noun
- land granted to a clergyman as part of his benefice
- poetic.land, esp when regarded as the source of growing things
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- glebe·less adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glebe1
1275–1325; Middle English < Latin glēba, glaeba clod of earth
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glebe1
C14: from Latin glaeba
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Example Sentences
And, of all the yokes, is not that of the glebe the heaviest, which forbids them to cross the boundaries of their own seigniory.
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When the Church will say to those myriads of people, chained down to the glebe: 'Go!
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Another note was sent to the Glebe, requesting the Rector to come to breakfast and to look at the hounds being thrown off.
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On the following day, very soon after three, she pushed the bell outside Garstin's studio door in Glebe Place.
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Nevertheless he was decidedly curious about the good-looking stranger who had been seen in Glebe Place.
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