Feudalism Definition

fyo͝odl-ĭzəm
noun
The economic, political, and social system in medieval Europe, in which land, worked by serfs who were bound to it, was held by vassals in exchange for military and other services given to overlords.
Webster's New World
A society organized like that in medieval Europe.
Webster's New World
A political, economic, or social order resembling this medieval system.
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Noun

Singular:
feudalism
Plural:
feudalisms

Origin of Feudalism

  • From feudal +‎ -ism.

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Feudalism Sentence Examples

  • Feudalism was not at any time a national institution.

  • Feudalism formed the starting-point also of the later social nobilities of Europe.

  • The uniting of the personal and the land sides of feudalism came long after the conquest, and in a different way.

  • In studying the origin and growth of political feudalism, the distinction is easy to make.

  • Feudalism could not be established, however, until the great of the land had adopted them for themselves, and had begun to enter the clientage of others and to hold lands by the precarium tenure.

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