feudality
Americannoun
plural
feudalities-
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
Etymology
Origin of feudality
1695–1705; feudal + -ity; replacing feodality < French f éodalité
Example Sentences
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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
The nonsense of feudality can never be revived....
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
The royal power, personified here by Philip Augustus, was as much con116cerned as the burgesses in the diminution of feudality.
From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir
Certainly, the last remains of the old feudality would be engulfed forever.
From Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by Stevens, John Austin
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