Meaning & use
Grith
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Peace, protection, or a guarantee of safety, especially one granted under law in medieval England.
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The fugitive claimed grith within the church walls, where the law forbade anyone to seize him.
The king declared a period of grith so that merchants could travel the roads safely.
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An Old English and Scots legal term, related to Old Norse 'grið'; it survives today mostly in historical and legal writing about medieval sanctuary law.
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