单词	feudalism
释义	feudalism /ˈfjuːdəlɪz(ə)m / noun [mass noun] The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.Feudal services and the whole concept of feudalism kept the peasant poor.... This development of commercial capitalism in the early C17th makes a link with Medieval feudalism untenable. Of course, if we were to ask a medieval king to describe feudalism, he would not really know what it was we were asking of him. Derivatives feudalist /ˈfjuːd(ə)lɪst / noun ... In lieu of political support to a regime, whether military or quasi-democratic, feudalists exact favours through ministerial positions, loans and property allocations. There are three power centres in Pakistan: the feudalists and the elite with their money; the army with the guns and the ulema with its jehadi army and the claim to be ‘protectors of Islam’. The last time this happened, the feudalists took over a monarchy and then North America. feudalistic /fjuːdəˈlɪstɪk / adjective ... Since men from feudalistic societies tended to be unaccustomed to using their own initiative and there were political objections to giving them too much liberty, the success of these experiments varied considerably. Outside of Europe, the dominant forces outside France, in particular, were the feudalistic governments of the Hapsburgs and people like that. By the way there are no unions in my state, feudalistic economic policies have shut them out.
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