feudality
Americannoun
plural
feudalities-
the state or quality of being feudal.
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the principles and practices of feudalism.
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a fief or fee.
noun
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the state or quality of being feudal
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a fief or fee
Etymology
Origin of feudality
1695–1705; feudal + -ity; replacing feodality < French f éodalité
Example Sentences
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The polo feudality that was once built around Milburn now centres about Hitchcock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The king's household has not only several strong traces of this feudality, but it is formed also upon the principles of a body corporate: it has its own magistrates, courts, and by-laws.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Of the older Switzerland, Bâle, Berne, and Zurich were oligarchical cities, each holding in feudality extensive neighboring regions.
From Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum by Sullivan, James William
These ideas were the first to shake the stern despotism of feudality, by opposing to it the generous principles of chivalry which sprang all armed from the Crusades.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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