unfeudalize

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ feudalize.

Verb

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unfeudalize (third-person singular simple present unfeudalizes, present participle unfeudalizing, simple past and past participle unfeudalized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to no longer be feudal.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History [], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First), page 229:
      Nevertheless the Austrian Kaiser answers that his German Princes, for their part, cannot be unfeudalised; that they have Possessions in French Alsace, and Feudal Rights secured to them, for which no conceivable compensation will suffice.