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villanage
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villanage, n. [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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