Crossword-Solution: FIEFDOMS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Lordships | 1 answer |
| Medieval holdings | 3 answers |
| Feudal estates | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FIEFDOMS (2)
After the Onin War, which had destroyed the power of the Ashikaga shogunate and the aristocratic Zen culture of Kyoto, Japan had become a collection of feudal fiefdoms.
Japan became a land of quarreling fiefdoms, and Zen, too, drifted for want of leadership and inspiration.
Quotes with FIEFDOMS (3)
I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their "own" people and mounds of corpses on the territory of their neighbours. I was glad to see each of these monsters brought to trial, and think the achievement should (and one day will) form part of the battle‑honours of British Labour. Many of the triumphant pelters and taunters would have left the dictators and aggressors in place: they too will have their place in history.
You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2002–2006).