vassalage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: vas=sal=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

vassalage, n. [OE. vassalage, F. vasselage, LL. vassallaticum.].

•  The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.  [1913 Webster]
•  Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.  [1913 Webster]
•  A territory held in vassalage.  Milman.  [1913 Webster]
•  Vassals, collectively; vassalry.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

vassalage

absolutism, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, villenage

ROGET THESAURUS

vassalage

Subjection

N subjection, dependence, dependency, subordination, thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom, feudalism, feudality, vassalage, villenage, slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude, conquest, service, servitude, servitorship, tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship, liability, constraint, oppression, yoke, submission, obedience, subject, dependent, subordinate, feudal, feudatory, in subjection to, under control, in leading strings, in harness, subjected, enslaved, constrained, downtrodden, overborne, overwhelmed, under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked, the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of, under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb, a slave to, at the mercy of, in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of, at the feet of, at one's beck and call, liable, parasitical, stipendiary, under, slaves - in a land of light and law.