1. not based on, relating to, or characteristic of feudalism or the feudal system
Usage: formal; historical

Examples

• The merchant class developed in nonfeudal urban centers during the late medieval period.
• Some regions of Europe maintained nonfeudal governance structures even as feudalism dominated elsewhere.
• The rise of nonfeudal economies led to significant social and political changes.
• Historians distinguish between feudal and nonfeudal societies in their analysis of medieval Europe.
• Trade guilds represented a nonfeudal form of economic organization in medieval cities.