feudality
Americannoun
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feudalities
plural
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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
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The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The polo feudality that was once built around Milburn now centres about Hitchcock.
From Time Magazine Archive
From 1660 to 1760 the English mind was still much occupied in shaking off the last traces of feudality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
The king's household has not only several strong traces of this feudality, but it is formed also upon the principles of a body corporate: it has its own magistrates, courts, and by-laws.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
"But why had the noble wearer of this sword been deprived of his feudality and tenure?"
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
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 John Lord
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 Samuel Peter Orth
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 John Wesley Powell
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 Thomas Carlyle
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