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“It was quasi-feudal, really, and I can’t see us going back to that.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023

They build a house for themselves by a copse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but they do not own the site and, inevitably, the landowners, a quasi-feudal oligarchy, begin to circle.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2017

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the country's enormous potential was stunted by its quasi-feudal class system — a legacy of its founding monarchy, which ended in 1889 — and by military rule.

From Time • Mar. 18, 2011

The nation's founding monarchy, which lasted until 1889, insulated the country from the region's 19th century upheavals but also spawned a quasi-feudal class system that led to the inequalities that persist today.

From Time Magazine Archive

The authority of the state was impaired by the growth of private jurisdictions and defied by the quasi-feudal retinues of the great.

From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)