feudal lord
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As the etymologist Anatoly Liberman has pointed out, in its earliest forms, haga, hegg and hegge, the word meant “enclosure” or “yard,” especially the residence of a feudal lord.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Originally a retainer to a feudal lord, it’s said he joined a Yudano seminary to pray for his lord’s recovery from a deathly illness.
From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024
As Marx very nearly said, “The water mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist.”
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2020
Cocooned in wealth, he gazes out at the world like a feudal lord who understands his vassals better than they understand themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019
It follows, therefore, that when a great feudal lord became an open enemy of the Shogunate, his opposition was an organised power.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho
