unfeudalize

verb

unfeudalize

verb

Etymology From un- + feudalize.

1

To cause to no longer be feudal.

  • 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.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:

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