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

---

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

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

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

"It was our range, and they fenced it!" she said, with all the feeling of a feudist.

From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)