Feudalism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FEUDALISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the king or feudal superior
• medieval system in which people held land from a lord, and in return worked and fought for him
• The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
• the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
• the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and forfeiture

Words related to FEUDALISM

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Words that contain FEUDALISM

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How to use FEUDALISM in a sentence

• Under the predecessors of Charlemagne the beginnings of feudalism, which are very obscure, may be said vaguely to appear.
• It is here that, in the eyes of a philosophic historian, chivalry is clearly distinct from feudalism.
• Feudalism, in all its social distinctions, and in all its oppressive burdens, crushed them as with an iron weight, or bound them as with iron fetters.
• The deputies of the Third Estate were bent on the destruction of feudalism, as the only way to remedy the national evils, which were so glaring and overwhelming.
• Henry had, indeed, won a signal victory over feudalism.
• In this manner he continued, by force of arms, to increase and strengthen his own regal power at the expense of feudalism.
• That was a remnant of feudalism in her character, perhaps, which had suddenly developed during the months she had spent in Muro.
• To these new Irish subjects, who had never heard of feudalism, it entailed nothing of the sort.
• He was much impressed by the strange mixture of new world savagery and old world feudalism in the provinces through which he passed.
• The meeting here of those two great forces, the Renaissance and feudalism, is like that of Psyche and Mars.
• This problem is connected with the general problem of feudalism East and West.
• He convinced himself that the land laws of Wales were already those of Anglo-Norman feudalism.
• No more effective blow could have been aimed at feudalism, which was nothing if not militant.
• He has set his skill against the strength and skill of the monarch of rivers, and has mastered him among the haunts of fairies and beneath the ruined towers of feudalism.
• Feudalism is not an objectionable thing if you can be sure of the lord.
• Thus matters remained until the Meiji period swept away feudalism, and substituted for the military town the modern capital of a living nation.
• They are older than the Order of the Garter, and belonged to feudalism.
• Guizot contending that Feudalism and Chivalry wrought wholesome influences, while Mr.
• Its growth was crippled by Norman feudalism there, as its millennia-nourished security here was smothered by the East India Company.
• On Monday, May 4, is the baptism day of democracy, the extreme unction day of feudalism.
• Had not the foreigners come, the Restoration might have been effected, feudalism might have been abolished, but the new Japanese constitution would hardly have seen the day.
• Steam and electricity alone would have been sufficient to destroy our Japanese feudalism.
• Feudalism was as much opposed to the establishment of general order as to the extension of general liberty.
• Feudalism can scarcely be called a complete and rounded system.
• The Church, in order to fight the military and armed excesses of feudalism, employed many means.

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