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PRONUNCIATION OF ENFEOFFMENT

enfeoffment  [ɪnˈfiːfmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENFEOFFMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enfeoffment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENFEOFFMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

enfeoffment

Feoffment

In the Middle Ages, especially under the European feudal system, feoffment or enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service. This mechanism was later used to avoid restrictions on the passage of title in land by a system in which a landowner would give land to one person for the use of another. The common law of estates in land grew from this concept.

Definition of enfeoffment in the English dictionary

The definition of enfeoffment in the dictionary is the act of enfeoffing or the fact of being enfeoffed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENFEOFFMENT


advertisement
ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt
agreement
əˈɡriːmənt
apartment
əˈpɑːtmənt
assessment
əˈsɛsmənt
department
dɪˈpɑːtmənt
development
dɪˈvɛləpmənt
document
ˈdɒkjʊmənt
element
ˈɛlɪmənt
employment
ɪmˈplɔɪmənt
engagement
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
engulfment
ɪnˈɡʌlfmənt
enserfment
ɪnˈsɜːfmənt
entertainment
ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt
environment
ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt
equipment
ɪˈkwɪpmənt
feoffment
ˈfiːfmənt
government
ˈɡʌvənmənt
improvement
ɪmˈpruːvmənt
ingulfment
ɪnˈɡʌlfmənt
vouchsafement
ˌvaʊtʃˈseɪfmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENFEOFFMENT

enfant sauvage
enfant terrible
enfants sauvages
enfants terribles
enfeeble
enfeebled
enfeeblement
enfeebler
enfelon
enfeoff
enfested
enfetter
enfever
Enfield
Enfield rifle
enfierce
enfilade
enfiled
enfire
enflesh

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENFEOFFMENT

announcement
appointment
argument
arrangement
attachment
basement
comment
commitment
enforcement
experiment
implement
management
moment
movement
payment
replacement
statement
the moment
tournament
treatment

Synonyms and antonyms of enfeoffment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «enfeoffment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENFEOFFMENT

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Translator English - Chinese

分封
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

infeudación
570 millions of speakers

English

enfeoffment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

enfeoffment
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

enfeoffment
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Жалованная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enfeoffment
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

enfeoffment
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inféodation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Enfeoffment
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Belehnung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

enfeoffment
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

enfeoffment
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enfeoffment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

enfeoffment
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

enfeoffment
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Enfeoffment
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tımar fermanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infeudamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

enfeoffment
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Жалувана
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

enfeoffment
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

enfeoffment
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

enfeoffment
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förläning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enfeoffment
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enfeoffment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENFEOFFMENT»

The term «enfeoffment» is used very little and occupies the 162.700 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENFEOFFMENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enfeoffment

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENFEOFFMENT»

Discover the use of enfeoffment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enfeoffment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
Parliament. House of Commons. Mr. Donald Home, which takes place without enfeoffment following ; and I do not think a fair bona fide interest of 10 /. can be ascertained, without the party claiming being enfeoffed 13 March 1837. also. 6449.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1837
2
THE HOUSE OF THE LORDS SESSION 1837-38
ENFEOFFMENT: 1. Propriety of enforcing it. 2. Its Effect as a Remedy^ 3. Expense attendant thereon. 4. In Caithness. 5. In Peebles. 6. In Selkirkshire. 1. Propriety of enforcing it. In all cases of proprietorship, whether in fee or in life-rent , ...
3
Conquest, Anarchy and Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154
what they saw as their servitia by the assessment of fees of the new enfeoffment. Several more magnates returned cartae similar in form to those of Lacy and Vescy, in which they were careful to state the quotas they thought they owed before ...
Paul Dalton, 2002
4
The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China
This discussion of the relationship between enfeoffment and shi reveals that the author of “Heeding Positional Advantage” conceives of geopolitical unifica- tion within the traditional framework of Western Zhou enfeoffment. Put simply, just as ...
‎2014
5
Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1: From Earliest Times ...
[From Lu Xuangong zouyi (GX/C), pp. 90-93 — TTC, dB] LIU ZONGYUAN: " ESSAY ON ENFEOFFMENT" In the declining years of the Tang the dynasty was forced to yield much of its authority to provincial warlords and border commanderies ...
William Theodore De Bary, 2013
6
The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
I would suggest that it was especially operas like The Enfeoffment of the Gods which provided the "narrative context" for the actions of the possessed Boxers. Trances are a very dangerous state — both for the individual and for the community.
Joseph Esherick, 1987
7
Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the Battle ...
How many knights have been enfeoffed since the death of Henry I? (The new enfeoffment.) 3. How many knights remain on the demesne? That is how many knights was the tenant-in-chief to supply from his own resources in order to fulfil the ...
Reginald Allen Brown, 1984
8
Anglo-Norman Warfare: Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon and ...
How many knights have been enfeoffed since the death of Henry I? (The new enfeoffment.) 3. How many knights remain on the demesne? That is how many knights was the tenant-in-chief to supply from his own resources in order to fulfil the ...
Matthew Strickland, 1992
9
Feudal Assessments and the Political Community Under Henry ...
By further subtracting 299.81 knights — the known enfeoffment of 10 fiefs where the amount of due service is unstated — we reach a second subtotal of 1,500.94 knights with a known servicia of 458.50 knights. Thus we can compute the ...
Thomas K. Keefe, 1983
10
The English Historical Review
If the old enfeoffment exceeded the servit ium debitum on any holding, then the old enfeoffment was taxed ; contrariwise, if the servit ium debitum exceeded the old enfeoffment, the servit ium debitum was taxed. The now enfeoffment was never ...
Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, 1915

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENFEOFFMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enfeoffment is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Amid the chaos and carnage in Boston, heroes emerge
They eliminated system of enfeoffment to retake all lands controlled by the nation and redistribute the lands which were not belong to hereditary ... «NBCNews.com, Apr 13»
2
The cover of Dark Side of the Moon
For readers to whom this phrase means as much as "enfeoffment" or "saccage and soccage", this was a way of striking without actually going ... «The Independent, Mar 13»
3
COLYTON: Feoffees appoint first woman
... local businessmen joined forces to raise £10,000 and regain the land under a Deed of Enfeoffment on condition that all income from the land ... «View Online, Jan 13»
4
THE MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE IN THE PHILIPPINES
Weber borrowed the idea from Marx, but obfuscated it by focusing on the system of enfeoffment by which serfs were exploited. Weber also ... «Bay Area Indymedia, Dec 09»

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