feudality

[ fyoo-dal-i-tee ]

noun,plural feu·dal·i·ties.
  1. the state or quality of being feudal.

  2. the principles and practices of feudalism.

  1. a fief or fee.

Origin of feudality

1
1695–1705; feudal + -ity; replacing feodality<French féodalité

Words Nearby feudality

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How to use feudality in a sentence

  • At the gates of this frontier town he delivered his first summons of feudality.

    The Black Douglas | S. R. Crockett
  • We would caution those who now raise the cry of feudality and aristocracy, to have a care of what they are about.

    The Chainbearer | J. Fenimore Cooper
  • As for feudality, so long as the power to alienate exists at all in the tenant, he does not hold by a feudal tenure.

    The Chainbearer | J. Fenimore Cooper
  • Certainly, the last remains of the old feudality would be engulfed forever.

    Albert Gallatin | John Austin Stevens
  • This species of feudality is kept up to aggrandise the corporations at the ruin of towns; and the effect is visible.

British Dictionary definitions for feudality

feudality

/ (fjuːˈdælɪtɪ) /


nounplural -ties
  1. the state or quality of being feudal

  2. a fief or fee

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