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- adjective Before
feudalism .
Etymologies
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pre- + feudal
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Examples
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At the beginning of Spanish colonial rule, most of the people in the Philippines lived in riverine and maritime societies which were in the main chareacterized by elements of both slavery of the patriarchal type and prefeudal serfdom.
SEMIFEUDALISM IN THE PHILIPPINES: Myth or Reality? Abhay N 2007
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Feudalism in the old French Epic (_Chansons de Geste_) not unlike the prefeudal "heroic age" 52
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The "epics" of Hildebrand and Beowulf belong, if not wholly to German heathendom, at any rate to the earlier and prefeudal stage of German civilisation.
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