feudality
Americannoun
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the state or quality of being feudal.
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the principles and practices of feudalism.
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a fief or fee.
noun
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the state or quality of being feudal
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a fief or fee
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of feudality
1695–1705; feudal + -ity; replacing feodality < French f éodalité
Example Sentences
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The polo feudality that was once built around Milburn now centres about Hitchcock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Feud, feudal, feudality, is the orthography generally adopted now.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.
There is what William Howitt calls "an air of solemn feudality" overhanging the whole town.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
They have no aristocracy, they have no feudality, there are neither masters nor men.
From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)
The hungry Peasants, however, know too well what Treasure it is: Military seizure for rents, feudalities; which no Bailiff could make us pay!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Yet in this history many facts have been discovered suggesting that feudalities themselves had an origin in something more primitive.
From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by Powell, John Wesley
The German people were still divided into numberless small feudalities whose petty dukes and princes clung tenaciously to their medieval prerogatives and tyrannies.
From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Orth, Samuel Peter
It seemed to many to be extravagant, exaggerated, at war with all the "feudalities of literature."
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John
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