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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Mr. McAdoo hated vindictively the men who had stood in his way; at heart he was a feudist.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was made by onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, long-standing political feudist with the Prime Minister.
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
But the inheritance from feudist ancestors was strong in young Clanton.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
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