feudal lord

Example Sentences

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In the days since he announced it—anonymously—Kauffman has been accused of having a “peasant feudal lord mindset” and satirizing the city’s posture toward the tech industry and its leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 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

Fearing a repeat of the bloodshed in 1915, they were escorted out by French troops to settle in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, on land bought from an Ottoman feudal lord.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

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

I can therefore say that there was no feudal lord who continued to possess the same seat from the pre-Tokugawa period.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho