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Villanage

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vil=lanage

CIDE DICTIONARY

Villanagen. [OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain.].
  •  The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.  [1913 Webster]
    "I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted."  [1913 Webster]
    "Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Baseness; infamy; villainy.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

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