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- noun Plural form of
feudalism .
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Examples
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A major problem with this notion throughout recorded history has been that governments -- feudalisms, monarchies, and democracies alike -- have often worked at cross purposes to peace.
Randall Amster: The Obama Dividend: Is World Peace Finally Possible? 2009
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Right now, these centuries, feudalisms like ours are springing up everywhere, recovery is being made, and we take care not to look unique.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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Right now, these centuries, feudalisms like ours are springing up everywhere, recovery is being made, and we take care not to look unique.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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He studied the Middle Age carefully, not for its picturesque externals, its feudalisms, chivalries, and the like; but because he found it a rich quarry of spiritual monstrosities, strange outcroppings of fanaticism, superstition, and moral and mental distortion of all shapes.
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He studied the Middle Age carefully, not for its picturesque externals, its feudalisms, chivalries, and the like; but because he found it a rich quarry of spiritual monstrosities, strange outcroppings of fanaticism, superstition, and moral and mental distortion of all shapes.
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Beside the great world-spectacle perpetually in his eye and thought, the small old-world pomps and feudalisms of his own existence had a way of looking ridiculous to him.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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Bambinet, and the procureur, read the titles aloud, and pass over the feudalisms.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Clootz; -- or, dropping baptisms and feudalisms, World-Citizen Anacharsis
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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A major problem with this notion throughout recorded history has been that governments -- feudalisms, monarchies, and democracies alike -- have often worked at cross purposes to peace.
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