villenage

• HYPHEN: vil=len=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

villenage, n. [See Villanage.].

 Villanage.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

villenage

absolutism, adverse possession, alodium, bond service, bondage, burgage, captivity, claim, colony, control, de facto, de jure, debt slavery, dependency, deprivation of freedom, derivative title, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, feudalism, feudality, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, helotism, helotry, hold, holding, indentureship, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, peonage, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, restraint, seisin, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, socage, squatting, subjection, subjugation, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, thrall, thralldom, title, tyranny, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vassalage, villein socage, villeinhold, yoke

ROGET THESAURUS

villenage

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.

Possession

N possession, seizin, seisin, ownership, occupancy, hold, holding, tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency, villenage, villeinage, socage, chivalry, knight service, exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention, prepossession, preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner, usucaption, future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority, primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call, option, right of first refusal, bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession, possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est.