feudality

English

Etymology

Compare French féodalité.

Noun

feudality (countable and uncountable, plural feudalities)

1. The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

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

Translations

state or quality of being feudal

• Finnish: feodaalisuus (fi)

References

• “feudality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.