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Unfeudalize

Un-feu′dal-ize

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
feudalize
.]
To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal.
Carlyle.

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unfeudalize

unfeudalize

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To free from feudal customs or character.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      Nevertheless the Austrian Kaiser answers that his German Princes, for their part, cannot be unfeudalized; that they have Possessions in French Alsace, and Feudal Rights secured to them, for which no conceivable compensation will suffice.