feudal
Example Sentences
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Anarchists want to tear society down and revert to a more feudal world.
Their follow-up to “Prey” was a bloody animated anthology movie, “Predator: Killer of Killers,” with segments set in the Viking age, feudal Japan and World War II.
For most of the 20th century, the prevailing view of Southern plantations was one of feudal estates with accordingly primitive systems for the extraction of labor and thereby profit from bonded toil.
The powers of a landowner can range from the almost full sovereignty enjoyed by a mighty feudal noble to the essentially nonexistent rights I have over the protected swampland outside my window.
When the Song dynasty took over China in the late 10th century, the feudal system that gave aristocrats control of land and peasants in return for military service was breaking down.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
