- a variation of serfdom.
serfage
Example Sentences
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Part of these gain a miserable pittance as agricultural labourers, and live in a condition infinitely worse than serfage.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law, poured into the streets of the town.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
On the other hand, I do not wish to whitewash serfage or attenuate its evil consequences.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Christianity finding men in serfage and degraded all over the earth, had arisen on the fall of the Roman Empire, like a mighty vengeance, though under the aspect of a resignation.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
There is nothing to prevent the successor of Alexander the Second from restoring the system of serfage, with all its concomitant horrors.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
