banality

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The quality of being banal.

   • The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem.
2. 2

   Something which is banal.

3. 3

   A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at…

   A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.

   • The law of banality, one of the most oppressive products of feudalism, was revived for the advantage of the nobility.
   • Other banalities included the lord's exclusive right to hunt over the land, his monopoly over fishing, and his right to keep the dove-cote whose feathery occupants ate a peasant's standing crops.
   • In fact corvées, champarts, and rights of banality not only continued but had been increased in the course of the seventeenth century.

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