"Holyworkfolk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "See halywercfolk.",
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      "expansion": "Holyworkfolk pl (plural only)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Black's 1910",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
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            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance, volume 44, page 525:",
          "text": "More curious still is the position of certain tenants of the bishopric who called themselves Holyworkfolk, who claimed that their only duty was to pray",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, Thomas Duffus Hardy, “Preface”, in Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, page viii:",
          "text": "This they naturally considered an indignity, and made a party against on the ground that were Holyworkfolk and held their lands for the defence of the body of St. Cuthbert, and not at the bishop's pleasure",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, R. C. van Caenegem, English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I: Henry II and Richard I, page 437:",
          "text": "Record made before justices in eyre by elder men of the Holyworkfolk (Durham) and Northumberland of a sworn inquest held in the time of King Henry I concerning fishery rights in the Tyne",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert."
      ],
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      "id": "en-Holyworkfolk-en-noun-nFyR-Zi5",
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          "feudal",
          "feudal"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "medieval English law",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medieval English law) Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Holyworkfolk"
}

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  "etymology_text": "See halywercfolk.",
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      "expansion": "Holyworkfolk pl (plural only)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance, volume 44, page 525:",
          "text": "More curious still is the position of certain tenants of the bishopric who called themselves Holyworkfolk, who claimed that their only duty was to pray",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, Thomas Duffus Hardy, “Preface”, in Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, page viii:",
          "text": "This they naturally considered an indignity, and made a party against on the ground that were Holyworkfolk and held their lands for the defence of the body of St. Cuthbert, and not at the bishop's pleasure",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, R. C. van Caenegem, English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I: Henry II and Richard I, page 437:",
          "text": "Record made before justices in eyre by elder men of the Holyworkfolk (Durham) and Northumberland of a sworn inquest held in the time of King Henry I concerning fishery rights in the Tyne",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert."
      ],
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      ],
      "qualifier": "medieval English law",
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        "(medieval English law) Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert."
      ],
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        "plural",
        "plural-only"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "Holyworkfolk"
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