Definition of Feudality

1. n. The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

Definition of Feudality

1. Noun. The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feudality

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feudality

feudal
feudal law
feudal lord
feudal system
feudalisation
feudalise
feudalised
feudalises
feudalising
feudalism
feudalisms
feudalist
feudalistic
feudalists
feudalities
feudality (current term)
feudalization
feudalizations
feudalize
feudalized
feudalizes
feudalizing
feudally
feudaries
feudary
feudataries
feudatary
feudatories
feudatory
feudatory state

Literary usage of Feudality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe by David Jayne Hill (1905)
"... tendency ' inward feudality hering to the East. The preoccupations of Charles in his wars with the Saxons, the Slavs, the Danes, and other ene-, mies, ..."

2. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1904)
"This is not the place for tracing the origin of feudality on Roman soil, nor for shewing how, by a sort of contagion, it spread into Germany, how it struck ..."

3. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... I. THE feudality AND THE HIERARCHY. THE First Reaction is that of particular nationality against the universal sovereignty of the Franks. ..."

4. A Students History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1908)
"Henry and feudality.—It was principally with Thomas the Chancellor that Henry ... feudality in itself was only a method of owning land; but it was always ..."

5. A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings by Johann Martin Lappenberg (1845)
"... with the completion of the ministerial system, the notion of the conferred, or lent lands, out of which the relations of feudality developed themselves. ..."

6. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1878)
"Rome penned the oath of fealty, Rome tram- feudality. melled her Conquerors by her doctrine of allegiance. The policy pursued by Rome towards ..."

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