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feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta vendetta [Ital.,=vengeance], feud between members of two kinship groups to avenge a wrong done to a relative. Although the term originated in Corsica, the custom has also been practiced in other parts of Italy, in other European countries, and among the Arabs.
..... Click the link for more information. ) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. In modern times the feud, outlawed in most countries, has persisted where public justice cannot be easily enforced and private means are a simpler recourse. A famous example is the 19th-century feud of the Hatfields and McCoys in the mountain regions of the southern United States. The frontier in U.S. history was also characterized by private justice and the feud.

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See Waller, A. L., Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860–1900 (1988).

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No references found	I carried on a feud with him for eighteen months over that sword. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context Whether it was due to his feud with Stremov, or his misfortune with his wife, or simply that Alexey Alexandrovitch had reached his destined limits, it had become evident to everyone in the course of that year that his career was at an end. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Michael could not see them, save when he was being taken out or brought back, but he could smell them and hear them, and, in his loneliness, he even started a feud of snarling bickeringness with Pedro, the biggest of them who acted as clown in their turn. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context	Fete de la Madeleine Fete des la Cuisinières Fete des Stes. Maries Fete des Vignerons feterita Feth Ali Shah Fethiye Feti, Domenico fetial Fetid Russula Fetis, Francois Joseph Fétis, François Joseph fetish Fetishism fetlock fetometamorphism Fetr Fetterman Massacre Fetterman, William Judd Fetti, Domenico fettling knife Fetus feu Feuchtwanger Feuchtwanger, Lion feud feudal land tenure Feudal Socialism Feudal War in Russia in the Second Quarter of the 15th Century Feudalism Feuerbach Feuerbach, Anselm Feuerbach, Anselm von Feuerbach, Ludwig Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm von Feuermann, Emanuel Feuillants Feuillants Club Feuilleton Feulgen Reaction Fever fever blister Fever Therapy Feverel, Sir Austen Feverel, Sir Austin Feverfew feverish Fevralskii, Aleksandr Fevralskii, Aleksandr Viliamovich	fetus papyraceus fetus papyraceus fetus papyraceus fetus sanguinolentis fetuses fetuses fetuses fetuses fetuses Fetwah FETZ Feu Feu Feu Feu Feu de joie Feu duty Feu duty Feu duty Feu duty Feu-de-joie FEU-NRMF FEUA FEUA% Feuar FEUC Feuchtwanger Feuchtwanger Feuchtwanger, Lion Feuchtwanger, Lion feud feud about feudal feudal feudal feudal Feudal Age Feudal domain Feudal domain Feudal domain Feudal domain Feudal land tenure Feudal land tenure Feudal land tenure Feudal law Feudal law Feudal law Feudal law Feudal levy Feudal levy Feudal levy Feudal levy feudal lord feudal lord feudal lord feudal lord Feudal Lordship Feudal monarchies Feudal monarchies Feudal monarchies Feudal monarchies

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I carried on a feud with him for eighteen months over that sword.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

Whether it was due to his feud with Stremov, or his misfortune with his wife, or simply that Alexey Alexandrovitch had reached his destined limits, it had become evident to everyone in the course of that year that his career was at an end.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Michael could not see them, save when he was being taken out or brought back, but he could smell them and hear them, and, in his loneliness, he even started a feud of snarling bickeringness with Pedro, the biggest of them who acted as clown in their turn.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

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