Meaning of campfight | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of trial by combat between two people, the winner being deemed innocent.

historical, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“William discovered an inclination to humanize his people by abolishing trials by ordeal and campfight. […] The trial by campfight was performed by single combat, in lists appointed for that purpose, between the accuser and the accused. He who, in such a case, came off victorious, was deemed innocent; and he who was conquered, if he survived his antagonist's resentment in the field, was sure to suffer as a malefactor some time after.”

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