Claiming himself no rights of clanship or vassalage, he was fortunate in the alliance and protection of Vich Ian Vohr and other bold and enterprising Chieftains, who protected him in the quiet unambitious life he loved.
A few of the great native and Anglo-Irish families suffered sorely from the spoliation; the people at large scarcely felt it, except by the destruction of clanship and the introduction of feudal grievances.
The question of the moment was: Which of the two systems, clanship or feudalism, brought thus into close contact and antagonism, was to prevail?
If feudalism gave more strength to attack an enemy, clanship secured more happiness at home.
In this small island alone, where clanship still held its own, feudalism proved a complete failure.
And now the characteristics of both races were to be brought out in strong contrast by the great question of property in the soil, which was at the bottom of the struggle between clanship and feudalism.
Clanship reigned still over more than four-fifths of the island when the Portuguese were conquering a great part of India, and the Spaniards making Central and South America a province of their almost universal monarchy.
The primitive, simple, patriarchal system of clanship was Confronted by the stern, young, ferocious feudal system, which was then beginning to prevail all over Europe.
In clanship the type was not an army, as in feudalism, but a family.
St. Leger, had struck a fatal blow at clanship and Irish institutions in general, by bestowing on and compelling the chieftains to accept English titles, and by investing them with new deeds of their lands under feudal tenure.
Remarkable analogies exist between Iroquois clanship and that of other tribes.
Eakins, were divided into nine clans, named in most cases from animals: clanship being transmitted, as usual, through the female.
Such was the elastic strength of those relations of clanship which were the life of the league.
In vain their chiefs exhorted them to go forward: even at that terrible moment the pride of clanship prevailed.
At the end of the days agreed upon for the cessation of arms, Seaforth drew his people together, the influence of clanship enabling him to summon them at will, like a king; and again appeared in arms.
In 1792, Heron writes: 'The prejudices ofclanship have almost died away.
Frazer, simply runs:--"The ties of the totem or clanship are considered far stronger than those of blood relationship.
Clanship is based on a method of counting descent by means of names, either through the father or through the mother, but not through both at once.
Ashur Wright, so long a missionary among the Senecas, and a noble specimen of the American missionary, wrote to the author as follows; "I find no trace of the influence of clanship in the burial places of the dead.
There are numerous other clanship groups derived from adopted peoples now recognized as being distinctly Navaho; the first sixteen clans here named are accepted in the tribe as being strictly Navaho in origin.
All these then became clanshipgroups bearing names now applied to various Navaho clans.
This much only is certain, that the oldest form of the constitution was based not on freehold settlement, but on clanship as a substitute for it, whereas the Servian constitution presupposes the distribution of the land.
The hereditary influence of the Gordon family in other days was scarcely less than regal in the north of Scotland; and even at the time to which we refer, retained a strong element of clanship added to that of wealth and rank.
On this occasion the spirit of the old highland clanship was revived; fiery crosses blazed from hill to hill; and Lady Huntly passed in true Celtic style over the Gordon estates, receiving the homage of her vassals.
Owing, however, to the system of clanship which prevailed on the Borders, the whole sept became involved in the feud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clanship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: exclusiveness; faction; partiality; sectarianism; sectionalism
