seigneurialism
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From seigneurial + -ism.
Noun
[edit]seigneurialism (uncountable)
- Manorialism; feudalism.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 153:
- In addition, peasants had to operate within a social and juridical system – seigneurialism, or féodalité (‘feudalism’) in contemporary parlance – which also inhibited innovation.