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feudist

1 American  
[fyoo-dist] / ˈfyu dɪst /

noun

  1. a person who participates in a feud.


feudist 2 American  
[fyoo-dist] / ˈfyu dɪst /

noun

  1. a writer or authority on feudal law.


feudist British  
/ ˈfjuːdɪst /

noun

  1. a person who takes part in a feud or quarrel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of feudist1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; feud 1 + -ist

Origin of feudist2

First recorded in 1600–10; feud 2 + -ist

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

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

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

The militia Captain in command, who feared neither feudist nor death, was courteously received.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville

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