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neofeudal en · ADJ

Etymology

From neo- + feudal.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to neofeudalism.
   • Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal! 1982, Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton University Press, page 121:
   • The creoles' legitimacy as a neofeudal elite thus hinged rather precariously, not on a natural right of birth, but exclusively on a spotless record in imperial service. 2012, Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti, “Introduction”, in Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti, editors, Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities, University of North Carolina Press, page 24:
   • With that decline, there was the potential that papal ideology on sociopolitical issues would be neofeudal in orientation and yet have no neofeudal social groups or social order to defend. 1992, Gene Burns, The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World, University of California Press, published 1994, page 46:

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Relateds

feudal · neofeudalism