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Anonymous
To make it easy, here is the definition of what these gifs show from a good, white man's dictionary. Calm down your inner nigger and maybe you will be able to understand it.
3. fig. Acknowledgement of superiority in respect of rank, worth, beauty, etc.; reverence, dutiful respect, or honour shown. 1390 GOWER Conf. I. 249 The yonge ladie was forth fet, To whome the lordes done homage. 1450-70 Golagros & Gaw. 283 Thair gat he nane homage For all his hie parage. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 25b, To do homage and honour to almyghty god. 1590 SHAKES. Com. Err. III. ii. 43 Your weeping sister is no wife of mine, Nor to her bed no homage doe I owe. 1671 MILTON P.R. II. 376 All these are Spirits of air, and woods, and springs, Thy gentle ministers, who come to pay Thee homage, and acknowledge Thee their Lord. 1785 BURNS Cottar's Sat. Nt. xviii, The parent-pair their secret homage pay. 1803 MACKINTOSH Def. Peltier Wks. 1846 III. 272 They are compelled to pay a reluctant homage to the justice of English principles. 1823 CHALMERS Serm. I. 417, I offer them the homage of my respectful Congratulations. 1856 EMERSON Eng. Traits, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 68 There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth.
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