Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of feudal character or form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of the feudal character or form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To deprive of
feudal character or form.
Etymologies
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de- + feudal + -ize
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Examples
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Hand in hand with their honorable endeavours on behalf of this loftier aim have proceeded their attempts to defeudalize the monarchy to the utmost, with the sole purpose of substituting for the aristocratic guardians of the throne guardians speaking with professorial authority.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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