Meaning of FEUDALISM
| Pronunciation: | | 'fyood`lizum
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| | Definition: | | [n] the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war |
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| | Synonyms: | | feudal system |
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| | See Also: | | social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure | |
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| | Definition: | | \Feu"dal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. f['e]odalisme.]
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolutism, bond service, bondage, captivity, centralism, collectivism, communism, constitutionalism, control, debt slavery, democratism, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, fascism, federalism, feudality, governmentalism, helotism, helotry, imperialism, indentureship, monarchism, national socialism, Nazism, neofascism, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, peonage, pluralism, political principles, republicanism, restraint, royalism, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, socialism, statism, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage |
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