Citations:estamentally

English citations of estamentally

Adverb

1. By class or stratum

   Feudal society was divided estamentally.

   • 2000, Carroll Johnson, Cervantes and the Material World, University of Illinois Press, page 1

     It is possible, for example, to observe a recurrent preoccupation with the clash of two different economic systems, a reenergized feudalism and an incipient capitalism, and to observe furthermore that this clash engages Cervantes's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century characters both ethnically and estamentally.