feudality

[ fyoo-dal-i-tee ]

/ fyuˈdæl ɪ ti /

Save This Word!

noun, plural feu·dal·i·ties.

the state or quality of being feudal.

the principles and practices of feudalism.

a fief or fee.

QUIZ

ARE YOU A TRUE BLUE CHAMPION OF THESE "BLUE" SYNONYMS?

We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms.

Question 1 of 8

Which of the following words describes “sky blue”?

navy

beryl

azure

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Meet Grammar Coach

Write or paste your essay, email, or story into Grammar Coach and get grammar help

Improve Your Writing

Meet Grammar CoachImprove Your Writing

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

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012