lese-majesty or leze-majesty /lēz-majˈi-sti/ (also (French) lese-majesté /-ma-zhə-stāˈ/)

An offence against the sovereign power, treason

—lese or leze, treated as if it had verbal force, has also been used to form compounds such as leseˈ-humanˈity and lezeˈ-libˈerty

• light-tight
• light time
• light-tower
• light-towers
• light trap
• light traps
• light up
• light water
• light-water reactor
• light-water reactors
• lightweight
• lightweights
• light-winged
• light-year
• light-years
• lignage
• lignages
• lign-aloes
• lignaloes
• ligne
• ligneous
• lignes
• lignification
• lignifications
• lignified