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
During his reign, the capital prospered,—"the king made of it his refuge, his citadel and his arsenal for all his enterprises against the feudality."
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William
Even Jeffrey seriously lamented, in one of his first reviews of Scott's poems, that he should have identified himself with the unpicturesque and expiring images of feudality, which no effort could render poetical.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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
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