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vassalitic

vassalitic adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of the status of vassal.

Adjective

vassalitic (comparative more vassalitic, superlative most vassalitic)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the status of vassal.
    • For a good supply of money they were always ready to grant an equivalent, immunity from some vassalitic obligation, the confirmation of some disputed right, or the enjoyment of some privilege not warranted by preceding usage.1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: History and biography, page 642
    • But when feudality made such progress in the kingdom — when compelled to exchange their allodial for vassalitic lands, and to march at the bidding of their temporal or ecclesiastical chief — they lost their noble independence.1853, Theodore Alois Buckley, The great cities of the Middle Ages, page 108

Forms of vassalitic

comparativemore vassalitic
superlativemost vassalitic

Questions about vassalitic

What does vassalitic mean?
Vassalitic means pertaining to or characteristic of the status of vassal.
What part of speech is vassalitic?
Vassalitic is an adjective.

Words near vassalitic in the dictionary

  1. vassaling
  2. vassalisation
  3. vassalise
  4. vassalised
  5. vassalism
  6. vassalitic
  7. vassality
  8. vassalization
  9. vassalizations
  10. vassalize
  11. vassalized

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