unfeudalize
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[edit]unfeudalize (third-person singular simple present unfeudalizes, present participle unfeudalizing, simple past and past participle unfeudalized)
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be feudal.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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.