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
Well into his 70s, the gauntly handsome, gimlet-eyed centimillionaire rose near dawn to ride herd with his feudally loyal vaqueros, lassoing calves and searing them with the King Ranch's running-W brand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For one thing, he gave him all the Austrian Prisoners; whom Friedrich, judiciously generous, dismissed without ransom except that they should be feudally subject to him henceforth.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
