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
Most people saw their parish priest much more often than their feudal lord.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 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
It had organized its own hierarchy on the feudal model, and, lastly, it was itself by far the most powerful feudal lord, holding, as it did, fully one-third of the soil of the Catholic world.
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich
