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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.]