feudal society

collocation in English

meaningsoffeudalandsociety

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feudal
adjective
uk
/ˈfjuː.dəl/us
/ˈfjuː.dəl/
relating to the social system of western Europe in the Middle Ages or any society that is organized according to rank. In a feudal society, people at one level of society receive land to live and work on from those higher than them in rank, and in return have to work for them and fight for them if necessary, sometimes also giving them some of the food ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition offeudalandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The burghers had grown strong infeudalsocietyand wanted a suitable position among the estates.
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For example, infeudalsocietysocial actions such as trade and craft production were spatially defined as towns that are regarded as locales.
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The oligarchies were intermediate groups, but were clearly integrated, albeit in an inferior position, into the privileged classes offeudalsociety.
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Far from representing 'feminine' spaces, he contends that matriliny in afeudalsocietywas highly patriarchal.
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Again, a particular (though concededly in this case ver y hazily defined) set of legal relations composes what we tend to callfeudalsociety.
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Selkirk put the revolt down to disrespect for 'the decadent remnants of afeudalsociety' and for the conduct of government since 1959.
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We are talking about a country with 1.2 billion inhabitants, of 9.5 million square kilometres, and one which in 1910 was still afeudalsociety.
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The hierarchy of afeudalsocietyis challenged by the use of the word "citizen".
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The sheriff of a county is a very charming relic of the oldfeudalsocietyof centuries ago.
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Nevertheless, we have to recognise that the hereditary principle derives from afeudalsocietyand from a land-owning class with great properties and great political powers.
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But are we going back to that kind offeudalsociety, or are these not the essentials that should be provided by society for the teaching of our children?
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Then, there wasfeudalsociety, in which lord and serf played the roles of class war.
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Serfs formed the lowest social class offeudalsociety.
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The abbey is an essential part of the structural composition of the town thefeudalsocietyconstructed.
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The capitalist process in much the same way in which it destroyed the institutional framework offeudalsocietyalso undermines its own.
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In the 17th century the epic genre was heavily criticized, because it was felt expressing the traditional values of thefeudalsociety.
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The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins offeudalsocietyhas not done away with class antagonisms.
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The epos was mocked, and even thefeudalsociety, but there was hardly a general interest in the genre.
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Although the reform improved income distribution, its main contribution was to transform afeudalsocietyinto a market society.
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