feudally
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In a way where local lords control land and people
- adverb
- /ˈfjuːdəli/
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feudalmente
- Many regions in Europe were governed feudally, where vassals served their lords in return for land.
Examples
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In the medieval documentary, the society operated feudally, with strict hierarchies and land ownership.
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The villagers lived feudally, offering their crops to the lord in exchange for protection.
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Tribal levies answering to leaders they are related to by blood and feudally would work, but we won't do it because it doesn't brief well.
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Surface Forms
feudally positive
Morphology
Etymology
Feudally comes from feudal, which comes from fief, a word for 'land given in return for service' in the Middle Ages. So to do something feudally is to do it in the old system of lords who gave land to people for their service, showing why the word relates to that way of organising land and power.