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feudality

/fyoo-dal-i-tee/US // fyuˈdæl ɪ ti //UK // (fjuːˈdælɪtɪ) //

封建,封建制度,封建主义,封建性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural feu·dal·i·ties.

    • : the state or quality of being feudal.
    • : the principles and practices of feudalism.
    • : a fief or fee.

Examples

  • At the gates of this frontier town he delivered his first summons of feudality.

  • We would caution those who now raise the cry of feudality and aristocracy, to have a care of what they are about.

  • As for feudality, so long as the power to alienate exists at all in the tenant, he does not hold by a feudal tenure.

  • Certainly, the last remains of the old feudality would be engulfed forever.

  • This species of feudality is kept up to aggrandise the corporations at the ruin of towns; and the effect is visible.

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