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/ˈɑmədʒ/ /hˈɑmədʒ/ Listen

noun

Homage n.

(Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.

Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance. "All things in heaven and earth do her (Law) homage." "I sought no homage from the race that write."

Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.

Synonyms: Fealty; submission; reverence; honor; respect. Homage, Fealty. Homage was originally the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord; hence the term is used to denote reverential submission or respect. Fealty was originally the fidelity of such a tenant to his lord, and hence the term denotes a faithful and solemn adherence to the obligations we owe to superior power or authority. We pay our homage to men of preeminent usefulness and virtue, and profess our fealty to the principles by which they have been guided. "Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet! Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters' feet!" "Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven."

verb

Homage v. t. (past & past part. homaged; pres. part. homaging)

To pay reverence to by external action. (R.)

To cause to pay homage. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Homage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Homage" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tom, accepting the homage meekly, "the other day in the library, when we were turning out all the drawers, I found a whole lot of 'At Home' cards, and the list of fellows that were asked to Roger's ...

— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed

... take off their sev'ral way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest: The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

... as a palm rising above the commoner trees of the forest. Ever since her coming out in society, she has been universally esteemed the beauty of the neighbourhood—as belle in the balls of Natchez. It is to her Richard Darke has extended his homage, ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... clothing. When the bathing is over they wring out the clothes in which they have bathed, fill with Ganges water a small brazen vessel, which each person carries with him, and make their way into the city to pay their homage to their favourite gods before proceeding to their homes. I have been told that the very devout among them visit some thirty temples of ...

— Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 • James Kennedy

... attracted, excited, partially, half-willingly enslaved. He had thought at the time that he loved her, and that supposition had confirmed him in his cheap cynicism about woman. This, then, was her paltry little court, where man offered mock homage, and where she played at being queen. Hugh had made the discovery that love was a much overrated passion. He had always supposed so; but when he tired of Lady Newhaven he was sure of it. His experience was, after all, only the same as that which many men acquire by marriage, ...

— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley

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