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Webster 1913 Edition
Villanage
1.
(Feudal Law)
The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
[In this sense written also
villenage
, and villeinage
.] I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual
villanage
, never to be manumitted. Milton.
Some faint traces of
villanage
were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. Macaulay.
2.
Baseness; infamy; villainy.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Villanage
VIL'LANAGE
, n.1.
The state of a villain; base servitude.2.
A base tenure of lands; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord; usually written villenage.3.
Baseness; infamy. [See Villany.]Definition 2024
villanage
villanage
English
Noun
villanage (countable and uncountable, plural villanages)
- Alternative form of villeinage
- 1854, Henry Rogers, The Eclipse of Faith:
- Even during the Dark Ages, even in its most corrupted form, Christianity wrought for the practical extinction of serfdom. Mr. Newman says that it was Christians, not men, that the church sought to enfranchise; it little matters; she sought to abolish all villanage.
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