feudal

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It was clearly an anti-feudal, anti-colonial, and anti-cleric movement.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of feudalism.
  2. adjective Of or relating to lands held in fee or to the holding of such lands.

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  • It was clearly an anti-feudal, anti-colonial, and anti-cleric movement. —  mongster's nest
  • Consider the role of banking in this neo-feudal order. —  Vive Le Canada - All Stories - Vive Le Canada
  • These conditions prevail where a feudal or semi-feudal class still controls and shapes the state, where the working class is too weak to take power, and where the bourgeoisie is the main opposition to the old order. —  Asian
  • Megawati and Amien Rais are bourgeois democrats but they do not face a feudal or semi-feudal state; they face a capitalist state run by the very same class from which they themselves come. —  Asian
  • The ongoing conflict in the south renders visible the violent antagonism in a semi-feudal, semi-colonial society. —  mongster's nest
 

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  1. from feud + -al.
  2. Also written feodal; = F. féodal = Spanish Portuguese feudal = Italian feudale = German feudal, etc., from Middle Latin feudalis, feudal, a vassal, from feudum, a feud: see feud.
 

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/ˈfjudəl/
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