feudalist

plural feudalists

1. An advocate or practitioner of feudalism.

   In short, Jose Antonio, son of a benevolent Spanish dictator who'd been forced out by republicans, was a sentimental feudalist who suspected capitalism and believed in the dole.

   1996 September 6, Michael Miner, “They're Right, They're Left, They're Gone”, in Chicago Reader

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   The author is not a monarchist, an aristocrat, a democrat, a feudalist, nor an advocate of what are called mixed governments like the English, at least for his own country; but is simply an American, devoted to the real, living, and energizing constitution of the American republic as it is, not as some may fancy it might be, or are striving to make it.

   1866, A. O. Brownson, The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny

   His revolt is not a revolt of the commercialist against the feudalist, of the Nonconformist against the Churchman, of the Free-trader against the Protectionist, of the Liberal against the Tory.

   1911, G. K. Chesterton, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

   On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.

   1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 6, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 70

comparative more feudalist · superlative most feudalist

1. Advocating or practising feudalism, or in which feudalism is practised.

   Had I been born in a feudalist society, I would have attempted to batter myself into the nobility.

   1962, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Mercenary

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   The sole object of Caesar was, while making use of the existing dynastic, feudalist, and hegemonic divisions, to arrange matters in the interest of Rome, and to bring everywhere into power the men favourably disposed to the foreign rule.

   1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V

   The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns.

   1960, Wolfram Eberhard, A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]