adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lord
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Additionally, some of the worker's surplus was seized by the feudal lord .
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People lived in small communities spread throughout the countryside, under the authority of feudal lords whose land they worked as tenants.
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They were also hired as soldiers by feudal lords .
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These rich feudal lords were required to spend six months a year in their palaces at Yedo.
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He had assumed his lordship like any other feudal lord .
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Occasionally a feudal lord reserved a wild patch of forest from destruction for his game hunting.
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The feudal lords - who could afford real glass - usually had it set directly into stone or metal.
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Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.
service
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The drawback to feudal service from the count's point of view was its limited duration.
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The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions.
society
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In feudal society , a superior status was accorded to the land-owning aristocracy and gentry.
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My forebears hardly knew what went on outside their small feudal society .
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Medieval, feudal society was rigidly hierarchical, and control of bodies was a central part of social control of the population.
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The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals.
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The nobility and the serfs emerged, then, as two of the distinct strata in feudal society .
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However, the clergy formed a third stratum in feudal society .
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To some extent, the Church was an independent force in feudal society , in competition with the nobility and the king.
system
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Stratification in the feudal system was based on landholding.
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Hodgesaargh was a one-man feudal system .
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It remained frozen in a feudal system which had decayed but not died with the end of the rubber boom.
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A kind of feudal system developed, but this had been present in much of rural Britain throughout the Roman period.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A local feudal family, the BalÜici, seized their opportunity and established themselves as rulers of Zeta.
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Certainly, the decline of the feudal force did not lead to the demise of the traditional leadership in war.
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So the patron saint had become absorbed into the feudal world.
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That of the Ottos' was, at least in its ideology, universal and feudal .
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The feudal lords - who could afford real glass - usually had it set directly into stone or metal.
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They were also hired as soldiers by feudal lords.
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While their feudal superiors killed or neglected daughters or banished them to convents, peasants left them more possessions.