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feudalism

/fyood-l-iz-uhm/US // ˈfyud lˌɪz əm //UK // (ˈfjuːdəˌlɪzəm) //

封建主义,封建制度,封建,封建社会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the feudal system, or its principles and practices.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inservility
as inthralldom
as invilleinage

Examples

  • That Silicon Valley is moving away from capitalism toward feudalism, with tech CEOs as feudal lords, and this is a good thing.

  • Then she and Red got into an argument about Putin, the Russian character and when Tsarism and feudalism truly ended in Russia.

  • The economy in California and elsewhere likely will determine the viability of neo-feudalism.

  • Yet except for occasional rumbling from the left, neo-feudalism likely represents the future.

  • The spirit of feudalism and of the old chivalry had all but departed, but had left a vacuum which was not yet supplied.

  • If it were a republic to-morrow, it would be a monster in legislation—half-jacobinism, half-feudalism.

  • Though feudalism as a form of government is no longer fashionable, it still survives in spirit.

  • In the act has been seen the formal acceptance and date of the introduction of feudalism, but it has a very different meaning.

  • The system (if such a word can be applied at all) was in fact a bad form of feudalism without its advantages.