esplees means the full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like. It carries an Arena rating of 1425, earned across 7 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, esplees ranks #1,572 of 13,220 for Funniest Words, #2,241 of 13,220 for Most Whimsical Words, #2,863 of 13,220 for The Improbable, #3,406 of 13,220 for Most Exacting Words.
Why “esplees” is a great word
The entire annual yield of profit from an estate, encompassing cultivated crops, spontaneous pasturage, and monetary rents. From Anglo-French esple(t)z, from Medieval Latin explēta, plural of explētum (revenue), replacing Latin explicitum (something completed or brought to an end). First attested in English 1598. Unlike 'rent,' a scheduled payment, or 'harvest,' a seasonal reaping, esplees is the totality—the wool shorn, the hay mown, the coins in the rent-roll. It is the tangible reward of stewardship: the granary full, the fields leased, the landlord's ledger balanced in ink. This comprehensive sum measures the older, holistic bond between possession and profit, where earth's value is told in everything it can be made to complete.
Etymology
From Latin expletia, Old French espleit. Compare exploit.
noun
- The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.“in a writ of Eſchete, in a writ of right ſur diſclaimer, and ſuch like, which are founded vpon the ſeigniory, and not vpon any ſeiſin of the land it ſelfe, no eſplees ſhall be alledged”
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