[f. next + -ATION.] The action of the vb. FEUDALIZE; the reduction (of a country) under the feudal system.
1862. Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., xi. 147. William had, about the twentieth year of his reign, completed the feudalization of the whole kingdom, and converted all the allodial into feudal holdings.
1874. Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England (1875), I. xi. 360. The tendency towards feudalisation of the governmental machinery, which had been growing since the days of Canute, might have made the assimilation of the English ealdorman to the Norman count easy and obvious; but that tendency was counteracted by the policy of William in more ways than one; and consequently it is difficult to reduce the expedients which he adopted in the several cases to a uniform rule.
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., V. xxiv. 460. The process which has been called the feudalization of Europe, the process which, in the case of the kingdom, changed the elective chief of the people into the hereditory lord of the land, was going on at the same time in every manor in England.
