villainage


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vil·lain·age

(vĭl′ə-nĭj)
n.
Variant of villeinage.
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villainage

(ˈvɪlənɪdʒ)
n
(Historical Terms) a variant spelling of villeinage
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Noun 1. villainage - the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
legal status - a status defined by law
servitude - state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude"
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villeinage

also villainage
noun
A state of subjugation to an owner or master:
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References in periodicals archive ?
See also Petrushevskii's significant review of Vinogradov: (Paul Vinogradoff), Villainage in England: Essays in Mediaeval English History (Oxford: Clarendon, 1892): "Novoe issledovanie o proiskhozhdenii feodal'nogo stroia," ZhMNP (December 1892): 307-76, as well as his other articles of the same type on the "decay of feudalism" that appeared between October 1896 and March 1897.
History in Russia comes of age: institution-building, cosmopolitanism, and theoretical debates among historians in late imperial Russia
Page, The End of Villainage in England (New York, 1900), in Eng.
England in the aftermath of the Black Death

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