feudality

[ fyoo-dal-i-tee ]

/ fyuˈdæl ɪ ti /

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noun, plural feu·dal·i·ties.

the state or quality of being feudal.

the principles and practices of feudalism.

a fief or fee.

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Origin of feudality

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

Words nearby feudality

feuar, Feuchtwanger, feud, feudal, feudalism, feudality, feudalize, feudal system, feudatory, feu de joie, feudist

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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.
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II|Thomas Paine

British Dictionary definitions for feudality

feudality

/ (fjuːˈdælɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

the state or quality of being feudal

a fief or fee

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