feudality

American  

[fyoo-dal-i-tee] / fyuˈdæl ɪ ti /

noun

plural

feudalities

1. the state or quality of being feudal.

2. the principles and practices of feudalism.

3. a fief or fee.

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feudality British  

/ fjuːˈdælɪtɪ /

noun

1. the state or quality of being feudal

2. a fief or fee

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Etymology

Origin of feudality

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

Example Sentences

Feudality was the principle of division, chivalry that of fraternity; and these remodelled society.

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Of this new empire, feudality and chivalry were the opposite elements.

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There is a kind of patron and client feeling about this—feudality some may be disposed to call it—which a lover of Old England is pleased to contemplate.

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These ideas were the first to shake the stern despotism of feudality, by opposing to it the generous principles of chivalry which sprang all armed from the Crusades.

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As the caste of warriors in India, who constitute the class of landed proprietors, and the aristocracy of the country, are founded on exactly the same principle as the hereditary nobility of Germany, it cannot excite surprise, if we find in India, not indeed the elaborate and complex feudality of the Germans, but a more simple system of fiefs.

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