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单词 feudalism
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Definition of feudalism in English:

feudalism

noun ˈfjuːdəlɪz(ə)mˈfjudlˌɪzəm
mass noun
  • The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

    〈史〉封建主义,封建制度

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This development of commercial capitalism in the early C17th makes a link with Medieval feudalism untenable.
    • What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England.
    • There were also refinements, if not the introduction, of the system of landholding and social relations known as feudalism.
    • Feudalism, European feudalism, was based on the Code of Diocletian which has this embedded in it.
    • It was consequently a system in many respects more feudal than feudalism.
    • The point I am trying to make to you is that notions of allegiance come out of English medieval feudalism.
    • The revolution had overthrown the brutal domination of feudalism and ended crown monopolies over trade.
    • Feudal services and the whole concept of feudalism kept the peasant poor.
    • Out of the creation of villages and the granting of lands after military conquest came the institution of feudalism.
    • This abolition of feudalism resulted in a controlled taxation system.
    • To this list we may add political ideologies like socialism, democracy or feudalism which animate peoples and governments of the region.
    • Societies became marked, first, by feudalism, in which control was exercised through the nobility.
    • Under the feudalism of medieval Europe, for example, the peasants worked while the lords ruled and were free from the burden of work.
    • In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911.
    • In Britain it was not until after the Norman Conquest that a full system of feudalism came into existence.
    • Manorialism and feudalism presupposed a stable social order in which every individual knew their place.
    • Of course, if we were to ask a medieval king to describe feudalism, he would not really know what it was we were asking of him.
    • Increasing attention is being paid to the fact that, initially, modern states were not the only dominant units to emerge from feudalism.
    • Both had called for redemption of dues and abolition of serfdom and labour services; but others saw that feudalism did not end there.
    • This was the antithesis of centralized bureaucratic feudalism in China.

Derivatives

  • feudalist

  • noun ˈfjuːd(ə)lɪstˈfjud(ə)ləst
    • Poundbury is made up of little houses for little people, living in their place and lorded over by a benevolent monarch with a number of castles and palaces to call home; a feudalist's dream.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In fact, he is an old-right feudalist, a man who longs for a world where everybody knows ‘their place’ under Nature and nobody is troubled by ‘dangerous ideas like progress’ and science.
      • In lieu of political support to a regime, whether military or quasi-democratic, feudalists exact favours through ministerial positions, loans and property allocations.
      • There are three power centres in Pakistan: the feudalists and the elite with their money; the army with the guns and the ulema with its jehadi army and the claim to be ‘protectors of Islam’.
      • The last time this happened, the feudalists took over a monarchy and then North America.
  • feudalistic

  • adjective fjuːdəˈlɪstɪk
    • Outside of Europe, the dominant forces outside France, in particular, were the feudalistic governments of the Hapsburgs and people like that.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since men from feudalistic societies tended to be unaccustomed to using their own initiative and there were political objections to giving them too much liberty, the success of these experiments varied considerably.
      • By the way there are no unions in my state, feudalistic economic policies have shut them out.
      • Jackson wrote many of her greatest stories in the 1950s, but they have an earlier feel, often set in villages with rigid, feudalistic social patterns.
      • Anyone who works at a law firm will certainly agree that it's a very feudalistic place, and they let you know right away that you are a serf and there is no hiding it.

Definition of feudalism in US English:

feudalism

nounˈfyo͞odlˌizəmˈfjudlˌɪzəm
  • The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

    〈史〉封建主义,封建制度

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England.
    • Both had called for redemption of dues and abolition of serfdom and labour services; but others saw that feudalism did not end there.
    • Of course, if we were to ask a medieval king to describe feudalism, he would not really know what it was we were asking of him.
    • Feudal services and the whole concept of feudalism kept the peasant poor.
    • In Britain it was not until after the Norman Conquest that a full system of feudalism came into existence.
    • There were also refinements, if not the introduction, of the system of landholding and social relations known as feudalism.
    • Increasing attention is being paid to the fact that, initially, modern states were not the only dominant units to emerge from feudalism.
    • Out of the creation of villages and the granting of lands after military conquest came the institution of feudalism.
    • This abolition of feudalism resulted in a controlled taxation system.
    • This development of commercial capitalism in the early C17th makes a link with Medieval feudalism untenable.
    • In China, feudalism, as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911.
    • Feudalism, European feudalism, was based on the Code of Diocletian which has this embedded in it.
    • To this list we may add political ideologies like socialism, democracy or feudalism which animate peoples and governments of the region.
    • Societies became marked, first, by feudalism, in which control was exercised through the nobility.
    • This was the antithesis of centralized bureaucratic feudalism in China.
    • Manorialism and feudalism presupposed a stable social order in which every individual knew their place.
    • Under the feudalism of medieval Europe, for example, the peasants worked while the lords ruled and were free from the burden of work.
    • It was consequently a system in many respects more feudal than feudalism.
    • The revolution had overthrown the brutal domination of feudalism and ended crown monopolies over trade.
    • The point I am trying to make to you is that notions of allegiance come out of English medieval feudalism.
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