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Definition of Prefeudal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefeudal
Literary usage of Prefeudal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth of the Manor by Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"... support of the contention that the usages as to common are prefeudal in their
main principles, it may be pointed out that the individualism of mediaeval ..."
2. The Growth of the Manor by Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"... support of the contention that the usages as to common are prefeudal in their
main principles, it may be pointed out that the individualism of mediaeval ..."
3. History as Past Ethics: An Introduction to the History of Morals by Philip Van Ness Myers (1913)
"This admirable code of social morals points unmistakably to long periods of
organized society and moral training in prefeudal Egypt. ..."
4. The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Résumé for by May Wright Sewall (1894)
"... attention to the crying evil of perpetuating laws which were wholly out of
harmony with their time and were virtually a survival of prefeudal days. ..."
5. The Law Magazine and Law Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1869)
"There is no magic in words, and " tenure " is but " holding," and could, for the
people of the prefeudal times, ..."
6. History of Latin Christianity: Including that of the Popes to the by Henry Hart Milman (1867)
"... volumes of the 'Documents Inedits,' has exhausted every subject relating to
the national and social institutions of the prefeudal and feudal times; ..."
7. St. Anselm of Canterbury: A Chapter in the History of Religion by James Macmullen Rigg (1896)
"In prefeudal times bishops had been elected by the joint vote of the clergy and
laity, and once duly elected, nothing more than consecration was needed to ..."
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