feudal
adjective
of, relating to, or like the feudal system, or its political, military, social, and economic structure.
feudally
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a word derived from
feudal.
Example Sentences
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Speedskating has long operated feudally, with power passed down through family members and friendship among groups of people from the Midwest.
From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 24, 2013
Much more pertinent are figures from each of the three great East German Junker families, with their palatial residences and thousands of feudally worked acres.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2011
To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its locale is Brooklyn in the late 19th century, when the borough still had its own mayor and power-hungry chieftains scrabbled feudally over a kind of Irish fiefdom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, as we have seen, copyholders in ancient times belonged to the class of villeins or bondsmen, and held, at the will of the lord, lands of which the lord himself was alone feudally possessed.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
