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homage

noun

  1. medieval oath of allegiance
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈhɒmɑːʒ/ / /ɒˈmɑːʒ/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/.

  1. A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.

    I ſought no homage from the Race that vvrite; / I kept, like Aſian Monarchs, from their ſight: […]

    When a man squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, […] she will consider such an impertinent freedom in the light of an insult, if she have any true delicacy, instead of being flattered by this unmeaning homage to beauty.

  2. An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.

    He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.

  3. In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.

    We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/.

  1. To pay reverence to by external action.
  2. To cause to pay homage.

    The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams

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