Villanage /(?; 48)/
Vil·lan·age
Villanage
n.
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The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. (Feudal Law)
I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted.
Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts.
- Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.]