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feudalism
Feudalism (noun) means a social order in which resources are personally owned and lords (suzerains) hold personal loyalty from subjects (vassals); its key features are direct personal ownership, personal loyalty, and a hierarchy reinforced by religion.
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A social order in which resources are personally owned and lords (suzerains) hold personal loyalty from subjects (vassals); its key features are direct personal ownership, personal loyalty, and a hierarchy reinforced by religion.
"It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering."
— Emerson Hough, The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West (1921)
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"feudalism" (noun) means a social order in which resources are personally owned and lords (suzerains) hold personal loyalty from subjects (vassals); its key features are direct personal ownership, personal loyalty, and a hierarchy reinforced by religion.
