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lèse-majestén.  Brit.  /ˌliːzˈmadʒᵻsti/, /ˌleɪzˈmadʒᵻsti/, /ˌleɪzˈmadʒᵻsteɪ/, /ˌliːzˈmadʒᵻsteɪ/, U.S. /ˌlizˈmædʒəsti/, /ˌleɪzˈmædʒəsti/, /ˌleɪzˌmædʒəˈsteɪ/, /ˌlizˌmædʒəˈsteɪ/Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French lese majesté. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French lese majesté, leze magesté, Middle French laise majesté crime against the crown (a1325 in crime de lese majesté , or earlier; French lèse-majesté ) < classical Latin laesa māiestās hurt or violated majesty (originally of the sovereign people, in post-classical Latin also of the monarch) < laesa , feminine past participle of laedere (see lesion n.) + māiestās majesty n.The modern standard spelling is after the modern French spelling. In β. forms with remodelling of the second element after majesty n. In γ. forms apparently showing remodelling of the first element after -it, variant of -ed suffix2; compare later lesed adj. Compare also hurt majesty n. at hurt adj. b. Compare the following example of a related phrase, apparently showing remodelling (for the sake of rhyme) of the second element after classical Latin māiestatis, genitive of māiestās (in e.g. post-classical Latin crimen laesae maiestatis the crime of lèse-majesté (4th cent.); compare Anglo-Norman lese magestate (late 14th cent.)): ▸ ?a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 2072 List he wer accusid to the statis Of crym callid Illese magestatis [1494 Pynson lese magestatis]. Originally Scottish. society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > treason society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 117 Quhen euer a baroun risis to mak were on his king, or rebell him jn ony thing to cum agaynis him, he fallis jn the crime of lese mageste. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece viii. iv. f. 95/2 Nochtwithstandyng quhatsumeuer offence of lese maieste committit be thaym. 1584 W. Allen i. 4 Neuer charged nor suspected of anie other treasons, then of hearing Confessions..: which both in the Priest that absolueth, and in the partie that is absolued, they haue made to be the crime of les-Maiestie. a1600 R. Lindsay (1899) I. 397 George Douglas...was banischit in Ingland ffor certane crymes of leismaiestie. 1609 J. Skene tr. 6 The crime, quhilk in the Civill law, is called the crime of lese Majestie. a1650 D. Calderwood (1843) II. 356 The conspirators ashamed to expresse the king's murther, committed this fained rapt, a crime of lese-majestie. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier iv. 332 I confess I am loaded with the Crime of Leze Majesty. 1787 tr. G.-H. de R. de Mirabeau I. 171 Whoever shall carry with him to those places where the wants of nature call him, a piece of money, or a stone engraved with the Emperor's head.., shall be guilty of lese majesty. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in 2nd Ser. I. 310 Perduellion is..muckle warse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose. a1832 J. Bentham Constit. Code in (1843) IX. i. vii. 38/1 Under a representative democracy..there can be no lese majesty. 1873 H. W. Longfellow Rhyme Sir Christopher in i. 111 Not having been at court Seemed something very little short Of treason or lese-majesty. 1947 2 Dec. 3/5 A highly conservative group..strongly opposed the removal from the Statute-book of penalties for lèse-majesté. 1999 J. W. Dower 602 Under the Peace Preservation Law passed in 1925, when Hirohito was serving as regent for his mentally incapacitated father, it was lese majesty to deny that the emperor was suprahuman. 2007 13 Mar. 18/6 Thailand is one of the few nations to keep lèse majesté. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [noun] > action of disrespecting > an act of 1562 N. Winȝet (1888) I. 13 For geue we had kepit langer silence, we ferit baith the offence of our God and our conscience to be smotit with the cryme of lese maiestie. 1658 J. Durham xxii. 781 He [sc. God] esteemeth it highest arrogancy and lese-majesty to alter in any thing His word. 1672 R. McWard 50 He who dare not for feare of making himself guilty, of Lese Majesty against Jesus Christ. 1708 W. Darrell iii. 20 You tell me, I am guilty of Leze Majesty against Ladies. 1841 R. W. Emerson 17 Why then goest thou as some..listening worshipper to this saint or to that? That is the only lese-majesty. 1867 J. E. Cooke i. v. 91 He was writing at the General's desk, on the General's paper, and with the General's pen! Fearing a harsh rebuke for this act of military lesè-majesté, the trooper stammered out an apology. 1933 H. Miller Let. 10 Apr. in A. Nin & H. Miller (1989) 144 If you look at language merely as craft you are committing lèse-majesté towards your own sacred tools. 1933 S. Walker 274 I suppose it is lese majesty to say the police force is not 100 per cent efficient. 1989 C. S. Murray viii. 186 The lese-majesty of a very young ZZ Top telling him that he had changed chord too late. 2010 July 54/2 A. O. Scott's ‘threnody’..which O'Hehir has the temerity to call ‘gasbaggy’—practically an act of lèse-majesté in the criticsphere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.c1485 |