feudist
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of feudist1
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; feud 1 + -ist
Origin of feudist2
Example Sentences
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It was made by onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, long-standing political feudist with the Prime Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. McAdoo hated vindictively the men who had stood in his way; at heart he was a feudist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trouble with these, explains Nabokov, a literary feudist of Dr. Johnson's caliber, is that they are "unfortunately available to students."
From Time Magazine Archive
One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It was our range, and they fenced it!" she said, with all the feeling of a feudist.
From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
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