Crossword-Solution: FEUDALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Feudalism | n. | 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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| Medieval system with lieges and their lieges | 1 answer |
| Social order of medieval times. | 1 answer |
| Social system in medieval Europe | 1 answer |
| vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war | 1 answer |
| state system | 5 answers |
| civil service | 10 answers |
| form of government | 11 answers |
| overlordship | 14 answers |
| suzerainty | 14 answers |
| regency | 18 answers |
| governance | 32 answers |
| magistrature | 44 answers |
| directorship | 52 answers |
| government | 54 answers |
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Sentences with FEUDALISM (5)
The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.
After having seen Aigues Mortes, it was difficult to believe that any other place in Europe could suggest more vividly the days of military feudalism.
For the rest, the present system is only a continuation of the municipal system, which, in the middle ages, sprang up in connection with feudalism,--an oppressive, mischief-making system, full of petty passions and base intrigues.
But the stone is connected with one of those remarkable tenures of land which linger on into the modern world from Feudalism.
And if this is the fault of America, how dire a danger lies before a new land and a new city, lest Atlanta, stooping for mere gold, shall find that gold accursed! It was no maiden’s idle whim that started this hard racing; a fearful wilderness lay about the feet of that city after the War,—feudalism, poverty, the rise of the Third Estate, serfdom, the re-birth of Law and Order, and above and between all, the Veil of Race.
Quotes with FEUDALISM (3)
While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary lords?, such as f…
It is often said that Islam is an egalitarian religion. There is much truth in this assertion. If we compare Islam at the time of its advent with the societies that surrounded it — the stratified feudalism of Iran and the caste system of India to the east, the privileged aristocracies of both Byzantine and Latin Europe to the west — the Islamic dispensation does indeed bring a message of equality. Not only does Islam not endorse such systems of social differentiation; it expl…
While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–2023).