feudality

English

Etymology

Compare French féodalité.

Noun

feudality (countable and uncountable, plural feudalities)

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
  This species of feudality is kept up to aggrandize the corporations at the ruin of the towns ; and the effect is visible

Translations

state or quality of being feudal

Finnish: feodaalisuus (fi)

References

feudality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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