villenage
Example Sentences
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This increase of villenage morally depressed the peasantry, and widened still further the breach between the yeomanry and the gentry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
The beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to as the date of the extinction of personal villenage.
From Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 by Various
And when these had lasted a considerable time in any manor, the villenage of the latter, without any manumission, would have expired by desuetude.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
Seems to me that villenage is not extinct, even in this colonial and democratic community.'
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
To people imbued with ideas of feudalism the way of escape from villenage seemed to be not independence, but a new reversion to it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
