Witenagemot Definition

wĭtn-ə-gə-mōt
noun
An Anglo-Saxon advisory council to the king, composed of about 100 nobles, prelates, and other officials, convened at intervals to discuss administrative and judicial affairs.
American Heritage

Witan.

Webster's New World
Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.
Wiktionary
(history) The assembly of the Anglo-Saxon national council.
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Other Word Forms of Witenagemot

Noun

Singular:
witenagemot
Plural:
witenagemots

Origin of Witenagemot

  • Old English witena gemōt meeting of councilors witena genitive pl. of wita councilor weid- in Indo-European roots gemōt meeting (ge- collective pref. kom in Indo-European roots) (mōt meeting)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English witena Ä¡emōt.

    From Wiktionary

Witenagemot Sentence Examples

  • Later the district formed the northern division of Mercia, and in 848 the Mercian witenagemot assembled at Repton.

  • In 811 it was called the king's town, arid a witenagemot was held here under rEthelstan.

  • Saxon Witenagemot and Norman Curia regis seem very much alike.

  • A witenagemot was held there in 934, so that Frome must already have been a place of some size.

  • At Amesbury (Ambresberia, Aumbresbery) a witenagemot was held in 932, while about 980 Ælfthryth (Ethelfrida), queendowager of Edgar, erected here a nunnery in expiation of the murder of her stepson.

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