vassalage

Example Sentences

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Moscow has also leaned heavily on China—further deepening what analysts already describe as an economic vassalage to its neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

“There’s no statement of vassalage at the site,” says Estrada-Belli.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

"He would add," Madison wrote, "that domestic slavery is the most prominent feature in the aristocratic countenance of the proposed Constitution. The vassalage of the poor has ever been the favorite offspring of aristocracy."

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2021

In Judah, there were two prevailing patterns: vassalage and rebellion.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë